Black Bean Salad with Avocado Dressing

If you are looking for a meatless main dish salad that everyone will love, then this recipe is for you!   Corn, Black Beans and Tomatoes make a healthy summer salad with lots of tang from the avocado dressing in this Black Bean Salad with Avocado Dressing.

Black Bean Salad with Avocado Dressing

Anyone else a menu planner?  I sit down on Wednesday mornings with the grocery ads and plan my menu for Thursday – Wednesday and create my grocery shopping list at the same time.  Some mornings this goes quickly and some it’s a struggle.  I try to make sure we eat healthy, so I’ve made a little check list for my plan in Evernote.

It list the highlights that I want to make sure I hit every week:  beans, grains, colorful veggies, seafood, and meatless.   This easy healthy salad definitely goes on the list of my favorite salad recipes.

Healthy Meatless Salad

I love that this meal fills two of my categories – beans and meatless.  Not only that, but it was wonderful!  Mr. Sidewalk Shoes commented several times that we need to put this in regular rotation.  Poor guy.  He knows it’s difficult to put anything into regular rotation when your wife has a food blog.  Always searching for the latest and greatest recipes you know.

What totally makes this salad is the avocado dressing.  Who knew avocado, cilantro, yogurt and a few other ingredients would be so incredible.  I could have literally ate it with a spoon out of the jar!  After reading several reviews of the recipe, I modified the dressing to have a different ratio of cilantro, the original recipe seemed really high on the cilantro.

Ingredients in this Southwestern Black Bean Salad

For the avocado dressing you will need: avocado, yogurt, cilantro, green onions, garlic, lime juice, sugar and salt. 

For the black bean salad you will need: 

Salad Greens – use your favorite.  I find that romaine lettuce holds us well with the other ingredients.  

Black Beans – homemade or from a can is fine.  If canned, be sure and rinse them. 

Corn – fresh or frozen.  If frozen, thaw first.

Tomatoes – cherry or grape tomatoes look nice.  If using bigger tomatoes cut them into quarters or wedges. 

***Note this recipe makes one serving, it’s very easy to size it up.  It would also be perfect for meal prep.

More Healthy Salad Recipes

Smoked Salmon Salad

Kale Greek Salad

Mexican Quinoa Salad

Arugula Salad with Pears and Prosciutto

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This recipe is from Eating Well, I tweaked it a bit. 

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Black Bean Salad with Avocado Dressing

This Black Bean Salad with Avocado Dressing is healthy, meatless and delicious! 

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 1

Calories 471

Ingredients

• 1/2 avocado
• 1/2 cup yogurt plain
• 1/4 cup cilantro fresh
• 2 green onions chopped
• 1 clove garlic chopped
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 cups mixed salad greens
• 1/2 cup black beans cooked
• 1/2 cup corn kernels fresh or thawed if frozen
• 1/2 cup grape tomatoes

Instructions

• Put the avocado, cilantro, yogurt, green onions, garlic, lime juice, sugar and salt in a blender and blend until smooth. 
• Toss the salad greens with 2 tablespoons of the dressing.  Arrange the black beans, corn and tomatoes on top.  Serve with the dressing for a little extra drizzle and store the remaining dressing in the fridge. 

Notes

Use frozen corn to make this year round! 

Nutrition

Calories: 471kcal | Carbohydrates: 62g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 839mg | Potassium: 1544mg | Fiber: 17g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 2760IU | Vitamin C: 60.5mg | Calcium: 216mg | Iron: 4.1mg