ABC Salad | Avocado Black Bean Cucumber Salad Recipe | Vegan Dairy Free | Healthy Recipe | Flavour Diary

 Today's recipe is ABC Salad, a salad which is creamy and full of proteins and completely vegan and dairy free. After my ABC soup i was eager to try on some ABC recipe with different ingredients  and now here is my ABC salad which is a combo of Avocado, Black Beans and Cucumber...Check out detail ingredients and direction to make an easy peasy salad which is colorful, yummy and healthy....
Few Facts about Black Beans (reference from here)

• The iron, phosphorous, calcium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and zinc in black beans all contribute to building and maintaining bone structure and strength.
• Black beans contain quercetin and saponins which can protect the heart
• Because of their fiber content, black beans help to prevent constipation and promote regularity for a healthy digestive tract. 
• Selenium is a mineral that is not present in most fruits and vegetables but can be found in black beans. It plays a role in liver enzyme function and helps detoxify some cancer-causing compounds in the body. 

Black Beans

Level: easy
total time: 15 min

Serves:2-3

1 cup:250 ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon:5ml

Ingredients

Avocado Chopped : 1 cup (1 big avocado)
Black Bean canned/boiled: 1 Cup( i used canned beans, drained and Washed)
Cucumber Chopped: 1 cup 
Corn canned/frozen/fresh: 1/2 cup ( used frozen)
Tomato chopped: 1/2 cup
Chopped Coriander: 2 tablespoons
Onion Chopped: 1 tablespoon
Dressing:
Lime/lemon: 1 
Olive /sunflowe oil: 1 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Red Chilli Powder/ Black pepper powder to taste

Directions

• Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and then add dressing to taste and enjoy.

Tips

• Avocado should be rippen when used.
• If you don't find black beans then you can replace it with your choice of beans.

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