Black-Eyed Pea and Sweet Potato Salad

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    as a side dish
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Zingerman’s Bakehouse Celebrate Every Day: A Year's Worth of Favorite Recipes for Festive Occasions, Big and Small

By Amy Emberling, Lindsay-Jean Hard, Lee Vedder and Corynn Coscia

Published 2024

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Black-eyed peas are a Southern staple, and they’re summer-ready in this colorful salad tossed with bitter greens, sweet potatoes, and a sorghum vinaigrette; it also makes for a perfect side dish for a celebratory barbecue. If you’re not yet familiar with sorghum syrup, it’s made from the stalks of the sorghum plant and is a staple of the middle South. As you might guess from the name, it is sweet, but with a complex flavor profile. Enjoy the rest of the bottle of syrup in a traditional mann