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Southwestern Black Bean Salad

4.97 from 54 votes

This Southwestern Black Bean Salad is fresh, colorful, and perfect for warm weather. It makes enough to feed a crowd and works great as a side dish, appetizer with chips, or topping for taco salads. You can also serve it with grilled meat and warm tortillas for an easy meal.

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 0

Marinate Time: 30

Total Time: 35

Yield: 12 servings

Course: Appetizer, Salad, Side Dish

Cuisine: Tex Mex

Ingredients

15 ounce can black beans (rinsed and drained)
9 ounce cooked corn (fresh or frozen (thawed if frozen))
1 medium tomato (chopped or 1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes)
⅓ cup red onion (chopped)
1 scallion (chopped)
1 ½ - 2 limes (juice of)
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoon fresh minced cilantro (or more to taste)
kosher salt (and fresh pepper)
1 medium Hass avocado (diced)
1 jalapeno (diced, optional)

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine the beans, corn, tomato, onion, scallion, cilantro, salt and pepper.
Squeeze fresh lime juice to taste and stir in olive oil.
Marinate in the refrigerator 30 minutes.
Add avocado just before serving.

Nutrition

Serving: 1/2 cup, Calories: 97kcal, Carbohydrates: 14g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Sodium: 139mg, Potassium: 282mg, Fiber: 5g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 198IU, Vitamin C: 10mg, Calcium: 21mg, Iron: 1mg

- WW Points: 1

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