Black Bean Salsa Salad | Mixed Vegetable Sprouts Salad

Here comes the healthy and colorful Black Bean Salsa or Salad Recipe. You can take this veggies mixed salsa with Tortilla or any chips or as a tummy fill salad. You can use it on baked potatoes, or wrap it with Tacos and Burritos; also you can mix it up with lettuce/salad leaves and make it even more healthier.

Ingredients

Homemade 1.5 Cup of Black Beans or Store Bought – 1 Can (15 oz)
Any Fresh Sprouts or Microgreens –  1/3 Cup or More
Fresh Corn, cooked – 1/4 Cup
Avocado – 1, peeled, pitted, and diced
Jalapeno Pepper – 1, Deseeded and diced (Optional)
Chopped Cilantro – 2 Tbsp
Sliced Carrot – 2 Tbsp
Chopped Tomato – 1 Tbsp and More OR
Cherry Tomatoes – As Needed
Chopped Cucumber – 2-4 Tbsp
Red Pepper/Capsicum – 1/4 Large, Deseeded and diced
Red Onion – 1/4 , diced
Ground Pepper – 1/4 tsp
Olive Oil – 1 Tbsp
Juice of 1 lime/lemon
Salt – 1 tsp

Optional dressing Like Ranch or Mayanoise

Black Bean Salsa Salad Preparation

• Clean and make the veggie ingredients ready.
• Slice the kernels off from the corn cobs or you can use frozen corn, microwave it for few seconds and it is ready to use.
• Dice the red pepper, onion, and chop up carrot and cilantro.
• Chop cucumber, tomato, Peel (Pic 1), remove the seed (pit) and chop the avocado as well (Pic 2).
• Combine all ingredients and stir gently so that pepper and lime juice coats well (Pic 3).

• Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or overnight.
• Bring to room temperature toss it and if needed add more pepper,salt and lime juice for taste.
• Serve at room temperature as a salsa with chips, a side dish on baked potatoes, with grilled chicken, on tacos and burritos.
• We often take it as it is for dinner.

Note

1. If you are using dry black beans then refer this link to learn how to soak and cook black beans.