on the menu most nights during the summer. Many times, I let it be the main dish. Since we eat lots of salads, I like to have a lot of recipes to rotate through. Here is a new favorite! I took some of our favorite homemade salsa ingredients and stirred them together with pasta then I created a dressing to compliment all the flavors. I took it to the first potluck of the season and had many requests for the recipe. I hope your family and friends enjoy it as much as mine do.
Southwest Black Bean Pasta Salad
Ingredients:
8 oz salad pasta of your choice, cooked
2–3 large
tomatoes, chopped
½ cup
chopped green onion
½ cup
chopped green pepper
3 cups cooked
black beans
1 ½ cups
frozen corn, thawed
Dressing:
¼ cup lemon
or lime juice
¼ cup vegetable
oil
4–5 Tbsp
chopped cilantro
1–2 tsp
minced garlic
⅛ tsp cayenne pepper
⅛ tsp cumin
Salt to taste
Combine pasta, tomatoes, green onions, green pepper, and
black beans in a large bowl. In a small
bowl, combine the dressing ingredients. Drizzle over salad and toss to combine before
serving.
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ReplyDeleteThis salad appeals to me, will be trying it soon! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteSince dry beans are such a nutritional boost for our storage, we use them often......
I had a hard time getting my autistic son to eat beans, so we started trying more recipes with beans until we found some he liked.....I kept this up for years until I had at least ONE recipe for every type of bean we store that I could get him to try!. He still won't eat garbanzos, red lentils, green lentils, and might try navy beans if I could find a recipe he will eat....but he doesn't like sweet beans, so Boston beans are out.
The results:
Brown lentil/chorizo tacos
Red bean chili with extra meat (was using only 1/2 lb. of ground beef origianlly)
Black beans n' sausage over rice, with cheese
White Bean chicken chili with medley of mexican peppers
Buttered baby Lima beans with or without ham
Crockpot refried Pinto beans for burritos
Rajma (an Indian kidney bean dish)
We also make:
Red lentil/bottled tomato italian soup
Boston Beans (navy beans)
Lentil onion soup (green lentils)
Garbanzo Italian salad
Mexi lentil n' brown rice mix for many a meal (brown lentils), but especially like Taco soup with this mixture
Smoky red beans n' rice
Black bean n' chicken quesadillas
TCT's (flat flour tortillas smothered in crockpot refrieds, cheese, salsa, sr cream, etc....sort of a Mexican pizza on flour tortillas)
Green lentil pasta salad
Heavenly White bean soup
Layered dinner bean dip with Tortilla chips......I found stirring green salsa into the crockpot refrieds, then the other layers on top of that eliminated the meat layer for us.