Hello everyone and welcome to the first entry of this blog :) I'm starting with a mexican salad, not like a real traditional mexican salad, it's just a salad with Mexican flavours. This salad was meant to be a light dinner with everything you need to finish your day. It has a base of lettuce, and then typical mexican ingredients such as corn, black beans, avocado, onion and tomatoes. Black beans provide us with carbohydrates, proteins and fats, while corn only give us carbohydrates and avocado good fats. If you want to add more proteins then add a water canned tuna, just remember to drain the excess water. The salad dressing is just a combination of lemon/lime juice and olive oil, some cumin powder and salt and if you like spicy food you can add a little bit of cayenne pepper or tabasco. This recipe is really easy to put together so you don't have to expend a lot of time preparing it, I hope you like it!
Ingredients
Lettuce
140 gr Corn
1 Cup of cooked black beans
1 Avocado
Some cherry tomatoes
1 Chopped onion
Ingredients for the dressing
Lime or lemon juice
Olive Oil
Cumin powder
Pepper
Salt
Optional: chilli powder or tabasco
Procedure
Cut the lettuce with your hands, or if you prefer with a knife.
Chop the cilantro into medium size pieces.
Put the cilantro inside the bowl with the lettuce and then add the corn, and then the beans.
Cut the cherry tomatoes in half and add them to the salad.
Add the chopped onion.
Cut the avocado in half, and remove the seed by hitting it with a knife and then twist the knife to loosen the seed from the meat. Now, just cut the avocado horizontally and vertically and then scoop the meat with a spoon.
In a bowl, squeeze a lime or lemon. Then add some olive oil, some salt and pepper to taste and some cumin powder, you can also add some pepper and chilli powder or tabasco if you like spicy food. And that's it there you have this delicious Mexican salad.
