Black bean & rice salad

Black bean & rice salad

Give tinned beans a flavour boost with this fruity, zesty mix to make a veggie midweek salad

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 25 minutes

Vegetarian

Vegetarian, Vegan, Low-fat

Method

  1. Put some rice on four plates. Top with spinach, beans, avocado and mango.
  2. Mix the cumin, 1 tbsp oil, lime juice and zest and hot sauce and season. Pour the dressing over the salad and serve.

Per serving

260 kcalories, protein 8.2g, carbohydrate 34.2g, fat 10.9 g, saturated fat 1.3g, fibre 6.6g, salt 0.43 g

Recipe from olive magazine, July 2009.

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  • 02 September 2009

    Claire rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Made this for lunch today but it was pretty average. The rice and beans together were quite dry and the portion size was tiny.

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  • 19 June 2010

    Richwilson59 rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    This is really nice! I just use a few kidney beans because Black Beans can be hard to get and taste pretty much the same.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 25 minutes

Vegetarian

Vegetarian, Vegan, Low-fat

Ingredients

  • 100g baby spinach
  • 200g cooked basmati rice
  • 1 x 400g tin black beans , rinsed and drained
  • 1 avocado , peeled, stoned and quartered
  • 1 small mango , peeled, stoned and quartered
  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • olive oil
  • 2 limes , juiced and zested
  • 1 tsp hot pepper sauce (Tabasco Chipotle is good)
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Per serving

260 kcalories, protein 8.2g, carbohydrate 34.2g, fat 10.9 g, saturated fat 1.3g, fibre 6.6g, salt 0.43 g

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