Thursday, January 20, 2011

Southwestern Black Bean Salad

I recently stumbled across a fabulous food blog called skinnytaste.com With every recipe I read, my mouth watered and before I knew it my menu that week consisted of 3 skinnytaste recipes. The funny thing is, I am not a fan of most "low fat" or "non-fat" recipes (read more about why here), but each dish I tried was filled with fresh ingredients. On the off chance that a "low fat" ingredient I didn't care for was used, I just substituted it with something else (I'm a huge fan of butter) Each recipe we tried was so delish! This is my new favorite food blog and I highly recommend you trying every recipe on the skinnytaste blog!

Ingredients:
  • 1 15.5 oz can black beans, rinsed and drained (I like to use organic black beans from Trader Joe's)
  • 9 oz frozen corn, thawed
  • 1 tomato, chopped
  • 1 small avocado, diced
  • 1/4 cup red onion, chopped
  • 1 scallion, chopped (I didn't have any scallions, so I just used a sweet onion instead)
  • 1 lime, juice of
  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tbsp cilantro
  • salt and fresh pepper
Directions:
  1. Combine beans, corn, tomato, red onion, sweet onion, cilantro, salt and pepper
  2. Mix with lime juice and olive oil
  3. Marinate in the refrigerator 30 minutes
  4. Add avocado before serving

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