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Cowboy Bean Salad with Lime Dressing Recipe
Why make a boring previous Bean Salad when you can also make it a COWBOY one?? Enjoyable to say, scrumptious to eat, this huge, juicy black bean salad is recent, easy and totally loaded, tossed with a lime dressing laced with South Western spices.
Use any beans you need. Serve it as a facet, stuff into tacos, pile onto nachos. Lasts for days – suppose meal prep and work lunches!
Cowboy Bean Salad
“Bean Salad” simply sounds so uninteresting. However stick the phrase “Cowboy” in entrance of it, and all of a sudden it sounds a lot extra thrilling. Proper? Identical dish, completely different packaging. Age previous advertising trick! 😂
Although truly, it is a riff on a salsa dish often called Cowboy Caviar within the US. With one huge necessary distinction – it has a fraction of the sugar. Cowboy Caviar is historically made with a lot sugar, my tooth aches simply studying recipes!!
This Cowboy Bean Salad has the identical great things in it – however 95% much less sugar within the Dressing. I assure you gained’t miss it!
You’ll love how this bean salad lasts for days and days!
What you want for Cowboy Bean Salad
Right here’s what you want! Use any beans you need – even lentils or chickpeas. And for those who’re a type of coriander/cilantro haters, change it for chives.
Tips on how to make it
Pop open cans, shake up the dressing and sharpen your knife to get chopping!
Bean Salad to serve with something!
Attention-grabbing sufficient for a meal, nice facet for any protein! It’s particularly superb for South American meals and Southern/South West/Texas, most Western meals and Center Japanese dishes.
1. Facet dish for mains – it’s hearty sufficient to serve with beef, recent sufficient for fish, and every part in between! As a result of it’s a salsa-type salad, you too can serve it spoon ON the cooked meat.
Major dish solutions
2. Mild meal – it is going to maintain you full because of the beans!
3. Dipping salsa – scoop it up with corn chips;
4. All issues Mexican – stuff in / pile on tacos, burritos, enchiladas, nachos, fajitas
Mexican dishes
It will maintain for 4 days within the fridge – and the avocado gained’t go brown (contact with air makes it go brown, the Dressing offers a movie to cease this from taking place). I like so as to add a squeeze of lime to freshen it up, then give it a toss and dig into it! (once more) – Johnsat x
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Ingredients
- 400g/14 oz can black beans , rinsed & drained (Note 1)
- 400g/14 oz can corn , drained (or frozen thawed 1.5 cups)
- 1 red capsicum/bell pepper , 1cm/1/3″ diced
- 1 avocado , diced
- 1 red onion , diced
- 3/4 cup coriander/cilantro , roughly chopped
- 250g/8oz cherry tomatoes , quartered (or 2 large tomatoes, deseeded and diced, Note 2)
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp chipotle powder (or American Chili Powder, Note 3)
- 1/4 tsp cumin powder
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 garlic , finely ninced
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Shake Dressing in a jar.
- Place Salad ingredients in a big bowl. Drizzle over Dressing, toss.
- Serve immediately, or keep for up to 4 days! Might need a squeeze of lime to freshen the flavour.
- Serve as a light meal or side (goes with everything – beef, fish, prawns, pork, chicken). Especially great with all things Mexican – stuff in / pile on tacos, burritos, enchiladas, nachos, fajitas – and Southern Foods (pulled pork, barbcue ribs, fried chicken!)
Notes
1. Black beans – in the spirit of “Cowboy food”, I use black beans. But any beans will do here – even lentils and chickpeas.
2. Tomatoes – if using large tomatoes, cut in half and scoop out watery centre, then dice.
3. Chipotle powder ??- sub smoked paprika.
Chipotle powder still not yet in mainstream grocery stores in Australia! It’s dried smokey flavoured jalapeños and it’s a staple ingredient in Tex Mex / South West / Mexican cooking. Found at Harris Farms (NSW/QLD) and some speciality grocery stores, or online at Firework Foods (I get Mexican ingredients from here) (PS Chipotle SEASONING can be used but skip salt in recipe)
4. Storage – keep for 4 days in the fridge (with dressing), might need a fresh squeeze of lime. Avocado won’t go brown once dressed.
5. Nutrition per serving.
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