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Cowpea Salad – Sri Lankan Cowpea Stir-Fry

written by Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi October 7, 2012
Kawpi or Cowpea is a popular breakfast in Sri Lanka. We eat grains or legumes as breakfast in Sri Lanka.  This Cowpea Salad is easy to prepare. Good as an appetizer, also good as breakfast.
If you look for similar recipes,then check this chickpea stir fry recipe.
I also cook cowpea curry which is thick in gravy.
 

Recipe: Cowpea Salad (Kawpi tempered/ Black eyed beans tempered)
 

Ingredients: (for 5 portions)
3 cups Cowpea
1 tbs chilli flakes
2-3 dry red chilli, cut into pieces
2 springs Curry leaves
half onion sliced
1 tbs ginger,garlic paste
1 tspn mustard seeds
1-2 tbs oil to fry
salt to taste
(Pinch of baking soda-optional)
 
Method
Soak Cowpea in water for about 6 hours.
Hint: Add a pinch of baking soda when soaking. This will soften cowpea.
When you are ready to prepare the salad,
First boil soaked cowpea.
Drain the water.
 
 
 
Heat 1-2 tbsp. oil in a pan.
Add mustard seed when oil is heated.
Then add ginger, garlic paste.
When you get the fragrance, add onion & curry leaf, also dried red chilli.
Mix well.
Then add chilli flakes & mix.
Now it is time to add boiled chick peas.
Mix well & add salt to taste.
Remove from the burner .
Cowpea salad is ready to serve…
Cowpea Salad
Cowpea Salad /Kawpi stir fry
 
In Sri Lanka, This is a kind of street food.
 
I love this, because it is freezer friendly. Always I cook more and freeze them. Easily can be kept in freezer for about 3 weeks & I use it for breakfast.
 
If you try this Cowpea recipe,let me know. 🙂
 
 
 

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Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi
Amila Gamage Wickramarachchi

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes,you will also find travel,health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is the founder of Sihela Consultants.(www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.

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12 comments

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Smitten ByFood October 8, 2012 - 2:08 am

5 stars
I love beans… we usually use cowpea for soup in Malaysia =)

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Sanoli Ghosh October 8, 2012 - 4:27 am

5 stars
a very nutritious legume salad dear. yummy

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cookcookandcook October 8, 2012 - 4:32 am

5 stars
very nutritious and yummy… Thanks for linking the same for my event..
Looking forward to more yummy street food..:)

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Veena Theagarajan October 8, 2012 - 5:31 am

I love this beans too.. Nice salad!
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Shobha October 8, 2012 - 1:53 pm

5 stars
I often eat this for lunch..I make it extra spicy for myself..yummy.

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Priya October 8, 2012 - 7:17 pm

Nutritious and yummy salad.

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Judy Haughton-James October 9, 2012 - 12:21 pm

Very interesting Amy! Looks yummy! Have a good day.

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realitaliandish October 9, 2012 - 7:26 am

This is not the kind of Italian breakfast, but lunch seems very good

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Jay October 9, 2012 - 12:03 pm

perfect n healthy version ..love it
Tasty Appetite

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Archana October 9, 2012 - 1:20 pm

Hey wow that is yum. Thanks Amy

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Amy October 11, 2012 - 2:16 pm

hi,thanks for visiting my blog & inviting me..I am already a member there…

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