This super-easy avocado and bean salad recipe is richly flavored with olives and cherry tomatoes. It can be can be made with pinto or red beans and is simply dressed in lime juice. Extra-virgin olive oil, cilantro, and pumpkin seeds are suggested as optional embellishments.
Though this would taste good with any type of bean (including chickpeas), I think it has the most visual appeal with any in the pinkish spectrum — pinto, red, or pink. Kidney beans would work, too.
What to serve with avocado and pinto bean salad
This salad may be simple, but it’s truly delectable. It pairs beautifully with simple vegan quesadillas (made with just tortillas and vegan cheese), grain pilafs, and other tortilla specialties that don’t contains beans (to avoid redundancy!)
Pairing ideas: A few of the dishes to consider serving this avocado and bean salad with:
Adapted from 5-Ingredient Vegan by Nava Atlas. Photos by Hannah Kaminsky.
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Super-Easy Avocado and Bean Salad (pinto, red, or pink beans)
For a side salad that’s a little heftier than the usual lettuce and tomato variety, this super-easy avocado and bean salad is just right.
Ingredients
- 15-ounce can pinto, red, or pink beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 ripe avocado, diced
- 1 heaping cup cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 cup pitted black olives (halved if large)
- 2 limes
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Optional
- Olive oil as desired, preferably extra-virgin
- Fresh cilantro leaves, as desired
- A sprinkling of toasted pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds
Instructions
- Drain and rinse the beans, then combine with the avocado, tomatoes, and olives in a serving bowl. Toss together gently.
- Add the juice of one of the limes and toss again.
- Season with salt and pepper. Cut the second lime into 4 wedges to serve with the salad.
- Add in any of the optional ingredients and toss again.
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Several of your recipes do not include nutritional information. I would greatly appreciate it if you could include this.
Hi Bonny — actually most of the recipes don’t include nutrition info; I decided not to include it after reading about how subjective these stats can be. For example, who is to say what is a serving? That’s always an estimate. Optional ingredients, different brands, always throw uncertainty into the mix. So in the end I felt that providing nutrition info was more a liability than an asset. If you want an approximation of macro nutrients — and it is always an approximation — you can use an app like MyFitnessPal. I hope that helps!