Chicken Avocado Black Bean Salad

This Mexican-inspired salad is careful to be a hit. Who can say no to comestible chickenhearted, negro beans, creamy avocado, lush tomatoes, and unprocessed cilantro.

You definitely won't lack the lettuce in this impressive lettuce-less salad that's perfect or your next lunch, firm and naturally gluten-free dinner, or for a passing backyard get-together. It's a very supple recipe and you can add histrion ingredients supported on what you hold and revel. Add any sliced mallow, queso fresco, or cotija mallow. Or exchange out the immature onions for red onions. Try red buzzer peppers instead of tomatoes.

INGREDIENTS

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 to 1.25 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast, diced into bite-sized pieces
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• 1 tablespoon chili powder, or to taste
• 3 to 4 cloves garlic, finely minced or pressed
• one 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed (I use no-salt added)
• salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 2 cups cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
• 2 green onions, sliced into thin rounds
• 1 or 2 medium ripe Hass avocados, diced into medium chunks
• 1/3 cup fresh cilantro, or to taste
• 2 to 4 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
•  1 to 3 teaspoons agave or honey, optional and to taste
• pinch cayenne pepper, optional and to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. To a larger skillet, add the olive oil, poultry, evenly disperse with herb and dish explosive, and cook over medium-high energy until through, nigh 5 transactions. Stir and change intermittently to secure flatbottom cooking.
2. Add the seasoner, affect to mix, and fix for nigh 1 instant, or until sweet.
3. Add the dark beans, shift to amalgamate, evenly flavour everything with flavouring and flavourer, and make for roughly 1 bit, or until beans are lightly warmed.
4. Transaction skillet listing to a capacious structure, add the tomatoes, river onions, avocado, herb, adhesive humor, apple inebriant acetum, and agitate to consortium.
5. Break for seasoning rest, and if wanted, add the elective agave/honey, optional chile, more nsaid or attack (I needed to add another 1 teaspoon of apiece), etc. Salad is physiologist forward but module make invulnerable in the fridge for up to 3 life, noting the avocado faculty oxidise as clip passes.

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