{"id":1701,"date":"2013-07-20T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2013-07-20T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T20:03:50","slug":"black-bean-and-pepper-salad-with-avocado-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"Black Bean and Pepper Salad with Avocado Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I subscribe to a few different recipe sites and this morning a very delicious looking Chicken, Bean, Pepper salad arrived in my inbox. The picture made the salad look so good, I just had to try it! Unfortunately my first swipe at it left me feeling a little flat so I jazzed it up a bit. The end result was pretty satisfying though I think there is still some room for tweaking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that we grilled Chicken Burgers last night and there were a few left over; for lunch today, Luke got a Chicken Burger with Avo Dressing and Bean Salad on the side!<\/p>\n<p>This recipe was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yummly.com\/recipe\/external\/Chicken_-black-bean_-and-red-pepper-salad-with-spicy-avocado-dressing-309214\/\" target=\"blank\">Kalyn&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1702\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?attachment_id=1702\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1702\" alt=\"Black Bean and Pepper Salad with Avo Dressing\" src=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-Bean-and-Pepper-Salad-with-Avo-Dressing-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-Bean-and-Pepper-Salad-with-Avo-Dressing-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-Bean-and-Pepper-Salad-with-Avo-Dressing-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Black-Bean-and-Pepper-Salad-with-Avo-Dressing.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Bean and Pepper Salad with Avo Dressing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1 &#8211; 420 g can Black Beans, rinsed and drained well<br \/>\n1 Pepper, \u00a0chopped &#8211; Red or Orange<br \/>\n4 Green Onions, sliced, greens only<br \/>\nFresh Ground Pepper and Salt, to taste<br \/>\n1 1\/2 teaspoons Lime Juice<br \/>\n1\/2 cup Salsa<br \/>\n3 Tablespoons Buttermilk<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Avo Dressing<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n1 large Avocado<br \/>\nGreen Onions, the white bits you have left from the first part of the recipe<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon Ground Cumin<br \/>\nFresh Ground Pepper and Salt, to taste<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Optional:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nShredded Monterey Jack Cheese<br \/>\nShredded Cheddar Cheese<br \/>\nFresh Cilantro<br \/>\nGrape Tomatoes<\/p>\n<p>In large bowl combine black beans, chopped pepper, chopped green onion, lime juice, salsa and buttermilk.<br \/>\nAdd salt and pepper to taste and stir well.<\/p>\n<p>In separate small bowl. mash large avocado.<br \/>\nStir in white portion of green onions, lemon juice, cumin, salt and pepper.<br \/>\nPour dressing over prepared Black Bean and Pepper Salad and stir well.<\/p>\n<p>Serve on a bed of Fresh Spinach leaves or Garden Greens.<br \/>\nTop with a bit of shredded Monterey Jack or Cheddar Cheese.<br \/>\nGarnish with Fresh Cilantro and Grape Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 4 &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>I reserved a lil of the Avo Dressing and spread about 1 teaspoon on the bottom portion of a hamburger bun, topped it with a grilled chicken burger, dolloped on another Tablespoon of Avo Dressing, finished off with fresh spinach leaves and a few tomato slices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1703\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?attachment_id=1703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1703\" alt=\"Chicken Burger with Avo Dressing\" src=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Avo-Dressing-on-a-Chicken-Burger-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Avo-Dressing-on-a-Chicken-Burger-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Avo-Dressing-on-a-Chicken-Burger-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Avo-Dressing-on-a-Chicken-Burger.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken Burger with Avo Dressing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I subscribe to a few different recipe sites and this morning a very delicious looking Chicken, Bean, Pepper salad arrived in my inbox. The picture made the salad look so good, I just had to try it! Unfortunately my first swipe at it left me feeling a little flat so I jazzed it up a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black Bean and Pepper Salad with Avocado Dressing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow-me-through-my-cooking-journey","category-salads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}