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I made the most awesome salsa from scratch the other day.
It has lots of flavor and it’s low in calories & fat!
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 can corn, drained and rinsed
6 plum tomatoes, seeded and chopped or 1 can chopped tomatoes drained
1/2 white onion chopped
1 loosely packed cup of chopped fresh cilantro
juice of 1 lime
salt and pepper to taste
Salsa Salad Seasoning or your favorite mexican spices to taste
(Penzey’s sells the Salsa Salad Seasoning. They have awesome spices! http://www.penzeys.com)
Mix all of the ingredients together and let sit in fridge for a couple hours before eating to let the flavors marry. Enjoy!
I made a big batch on Monday. So far I’ve had it in my salad, mixed into my brown rice, used as an accompaniment to fish that I baked, put some in an omelet, and I’ve eaten it straight. Of course you can eat it with chips too, just watch the salt and fat. You’ll love this!
Emmi my grilfriend would love this.She loves black beans and corn, if you puraied some of the tomatoes and added some chicken stock, it would make a great soup.Note- you would have to leave out the cilantro until you served the soup as cilantro seems to lose its flavor when cooked.
Emmi my grilfriend would love this.She loves black beans and corn, if you puraied some of the tomatoes and added some chicken stock, it would make a great soup.Note- you would have to leave out the cilantro until you served the soup as cilantro seems to lose its flavor when cooked.
What a great idea! You could even add some cut up chicken breast and then you have a complete healthy meal.
increase the amounts of every thing add the chicken, maybe a bit of chillis in adobo sauce, and a small square of bakers choclate(un sweetened) and you would have a wicked chilli.
Aww common, wheres your sense of adventure! 30 years ago if someone told you raw fish rapped in seeweed and served with green horse radish would be all the rage, you would say there nuts.There is a famous mexican dish called chicken mole(pronounced- mole-eh) one of the main ingredients is choclate. Choclate is common in traditional mexican cooking. I have actually seen many chilli recipes with choclate. Choclate isin’t a strange ingredient, one of my favorite things to cook with is peanut butter
Here is one example.
Chili Con Carne y Chocolate
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 onions, chopped
2 pounds / 1 kg minced beef
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
2 cans (14 oz / 400 g each) tomatoes
2-4 red chilies, chopped
1 red sweet pepper, chopped
4 teaspoons ground cumin
½ teaspoon ground pepper
2 teaspoons oregano
2 bay leaves
2-3 teaspoons salt
1-2 cans (14 oz / 400 g each) beans (red, white or black), drained
2 oz (60 g) bittersweet chocolate
Cheddar cheese for garnishing (optional)
Method
1. Cook the minced beef, onion and garlic in olive oil.
2. Stir in tomatoes, chili, sweet pepper, salt and spices and cook for 15-30 minutes.
3. Add more chili, salt or spices as required.
4. Add beans and cook until heated.
5. Add chocolate, mix well when melted.
6. Serve with rice, cheddar cheese and a salad.
Shawn, I never said I wouldn’t try it I just don’t know about it. I’ll try anything at least once. I’ll have to try your recipe. This looks interesting, thanks.
Right now I have some very lean beef and sliced portobellas marinating in a chinese 5 spice and orange sauce that I whipped up last night. I can’t wait to pull out the ol’ wok and stir fry it up with some snow peas, fresh onion and peppers! Who’s coming over for dinner?
It basically is an orange teriyaki. I use 2 tbs. Penzey’s Chinese 5 spice, 1/4 cup reduced sodium soy sauce, 1/2 cup orange juice, orange zest, 1 tbs honey, 2 cloves of garlic, and a generous dash of brandy.
Wisk all ingedients and marinate over night. The next day reserve your marinade and make a slurry with some corn starch and water. Bring the reserved marinade to a boil and add the slurry to make a thicker sauce. I pour that over the stir fry when it’s done. Serve with rice. It’s de-lish.
