Black Bean-Orzo Salad

Submitted by Dancer

• Ingredients: 12

ingredients

• 2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained or 4 cups freshly cooked black beans
• 1 ripe olives, sliced, drained
• 2 medium tomatoes, seeded & chopped
• 1⁄4 cup green onion, chopped
• 1⁄4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, or vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 teaspoon cumin, ground
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups pasta, cooked, orzo
• 4 cups fresh spinach

directions

1. Mix beans, olives, tomatoes, onions and cilantro in large bowl.
2. Mix oil, lime juice, cumin, pepper and salt; toss with bean mixture. Stir in pasta.
3. Let stand for 1 hour to blend flavors.
4. Serve at room temperature as a side dish or on spinach

Reviews

[Gato Volando]

I love orzo but all of the salads recipes I have use cheese and I wanted one without. This one was excellent, I really liked the black beans with the orzo. I like keeping something in the frig for eating on the run and this was great for that, it kept well and was a great snack for between errands.

 

[Beth1]

This is an excellant salad. My husband has diabetes and I'm always looking for healthy foods for a variety in his diet. This has excellant flavor with the Cilantro in it along nice texture variety with Orzo, tomatoes etc. I wouldn't make any changes to the recipe as it is excellant as is.

 

[Reada J.]

This was just okay for me, but I left out the olives, since we don't like them. The texture was perfect though.

 

[lemonzestmom]

I love orzo and I love black beans but did not like this dish. I found that there was way too much cumin in it. The only thing I was able to taste was the cumin.

 

[Bugeah]

This was pretty good, just seemed a little bland. The husband didn't like it and the kids were iffy with it too. So, to get them to eat it up I added melted cheese and salsa which gave it more flavor.