This salad packed with Avocado, black beans, tomato, onion, and cilantro dressed in a zesty olive oil, and garlic lime dressing is a healthy nutritious choice for a side dish or a filling meal.
I shared my tomato avocado salad a few weeks ago and I’ve gotten so many emails and Instagram tags from you guys, telling me how much you enjoyed it! So today I’m sharing another delicious avocado salad. This salad is loaded with black beans, avocado, tomato, onion and cilantro. It’s my Tex-mex twist on the classic avocado salad so adding corn, olives, or minced cucumber will make a great addition!
The salad is dressed in olive oil, garlic, and lime dressing and the lime helps keep the avocados nice and vibrant green. If you’re making this the night before, dice up everything else add the avocados, and dressing the last minute.
If you’ve never had an avocado salad before, this is a great way to try it. Avocados are packed with hearty healthy monounsaturated fatty acids, fiber, and antioxidants. Eating avocados can also lower cholesterol levels and help you lose weight!
How to Make Black Bean Avocado Salad?
This no-fuss salad is super easy to make. Grab a large bowl and follow these step-by-step instructions to make it perfect every time:
- Prepare your black beans (rinse and drain well).
- Cut your avocado, tomato, and onion into uniform, bite-sized pieces.
- Whisk all the ingredients for the marinade in a small bowl
- Combine everything in a large bowl, and gently toss or mix.
Tips for Keeping Avocado Salad Fresh
Avocados are notorious for turning brown super quickly. Here are a couple of pointers on how to keep this salad fresh if you make it ahead of time:
- Drizzle lime juice over the avocado to prevent them from browning
- Only add the dressing right before you plan on serving
- Keep salad covered in an airtight container or with plastic wrap
Black Bean Avocado Salad Variations
This salad is super easy to customize with different ingredients. You can easily remove or add ingredients such as chopped grilled chicken to make this salad a complete meal!
You may want to add shredded chicken, shrimp, or even bacon crumbles to the salad. Tortilla strips, crispy fried onions, capers, and boiled eggs are other ingredients that work perfectly as additions to this fresh and delicious salad.
More Delicious Avocado Salads
Avocado Black Bean Salad
Ingredients
- 2 avocados – peeled, pitted and diced
- 1 large ripe tomato, chopped
- 1/2 cup sweet onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a small bowl, whisk the olive oil, lime juice, garlic and salt & pepper to taste.
- In a medium bowl, combine avocados, tomatoes, onion, black beans cilantro and dressing. Gently toss until everything is coated. Serve immediately or cover with plastic wrap for up to 12 hours.
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Nutrition
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Can I use apple cider vinegar instead of lime ? If yes how much
Made this for lunch. Added celery and some cumin. Served it over a bed of spinach. DELICIOUS!
This looks great, I’m making it for a party.
I have made this many times, very good. We use it as toppings on our veggie burgers.
Can i use black eye beans instead?
Very tasty and filling salad. Easy making
I haven’t made it yet. . . . your recipe calls for sweet onion. However, the picture shows chopped red onion. that’s not a sweet onion. Yellow onions (specifically 1015 and Vidalia) are sweet onions. can you please tell me whether it’s supposed to be a red onion. thank you.
I used red onions but yellow onions will also work.
this recipe came out very nice. IT’S so DELICIOUS.Thanks.
Made this for a group get together. Not one bit was left. This is going into my permanent rotation!
I just made this and it’s my new favorite salad. Thanks for sharing it:)
I made this last night for a small dinner with friends. It was a BIG hit. We loved this recipe. It was a great side to serve with our chicken enchiladas. LOVED IT!!! Thank you.
I really like this recipe and have made it twice now. I add cumin and cayenne pepper.
OMG, to die for! I LOVED THIS RECIPE!!!! I made it tonight and everyone loved it. I added some ingredients to make it a meal with things I had on hand, like shaved corn off the cob (2), and grilled chicken strips cut into bites. Yum. Then I decided, hmm. this would be good as a dip too! So I got my bag of Tostito’s multi grain scoop chips! Doesn’t get better than that! This is an absolute keeper!!! I will be making this again and again, and again. Thank you for Posting this!!!!
What would be a good substitute for avacado? Cannellini beans? I love this salad but I’m curious if I could make a version without avacado for my husband, he’s allergic.
Maybe zucchini?
Oh i like b0th suggestions, i’ll give them a Try!
Beetroot maybe or hummus? I added celery & cucumber. X
Soft cheese? Mozzarella balls?