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Tuna and Mixed Bean Mexican Salad
This Mexican salad recipe combines tuna, beans, green onions, chili and tomatoes, which is a nutritious and flavorful combination. The red chili gives a little heat to the salad without making it too spicy. If you really do not, like spicy food you can leave out the chili and the same goes for the pair of green chili peppers in the dressing recipe. The dressing is a piquant and delicious combination of fresh herbs, garlic, lemon juice, onion and more and this dressing goes so nicely with the tuna salad.
This is a very quick Mexican salad recipe to make, since nothing has to be cooked or chilled. You can make it in about five minutes, which is handy if you are looking for ideas for a last minute lunch or dinner and if some unexpected guests have appeared. Serve this salad as an appetizer if you like. If you want to add more ingredients to the salad, sliced hardboiled egg, capers and sliced black olives are all good additions. You can even add some cubes of cheese or grapes if you like. What about some chopped avocado? A lot of Mexican salad recipes allow you to use up ingredients, which need to be used up. Feel free to add anything you fancy to this salad recipe.
The dressing recipe might make more dressing than you want to use, in which case it will keep for a couple of days in the refrigerator and goes nicely over pretty much any other salad recipe. If you do not like much dressing on your salad, you can halve the recipe.
Mexican Salad Recipe with Beans and Tuna
Ingredients -
14 oz can tuna in water, drained
For the Dressing:
1 chopped onion
14 oz can mixed beans, drained and rinsed
1 chopped red chili pepper
½ bunch sliced green onions
4 de-seeded, chopped tomatoes
½ teaspoon cumin
¼ cup lemon juice
½ cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic
2 fresh green chilies
3 sprigs fresh cilantro
3 sprigs fresh parsley
¼ cup water
Salt and pepper, to taste
Preparation:
Combine the chili, beans, green onions and tomatoes, and then divide this mixture between 4 serving plates.
Flake the tuna over the salad.
Put all the salad dressing ingredients in a blender and puree it until the chili and onion are finely chopped.
Pour this dressing over the tuna salad and serve immediately.
(Serves 4)
Photo Description:
This simple tuna and bean Mexican salad is high in protein and very healthy. The dressing is easy to make and very flavorful. The ingredients used to make this salad are very economical and if you are looking for quick and easy Mexican salad recipes this one might be ideal. You can serve this alone, with some bread or tortilla chips or even use it as a filling for a baked potato if you want to make a hearty meal instead of a light one. Another idea is to mix some chilled, boiled potatoes into the salad to bulk it up a bit and make it more filling. That is also a good way to use up leftover boiled potatoes.
