Black Bean Salad

Ingredients

• 15 oz can black beans drained and rinsed
• 1 small green pepper cut in bite-size strips
• 1 small carrot coarsely shredded
• 1 Tbsp chopped red onion
• lettuce leaves optional
• 12 tsp salt
• 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 14 tsp shredded lime peel
• 2 Tbsp lime juice
• 18 tsp ground cumin
• 18 tsp ground red pepper

Directions

1. Serve this high fiber low-fat salad with grilled fish or poultry
2. Rinsing canned beans removes some of the salt added during processing
3. You can also soak cook and drain about 34 cup dry black beans use 1 12 cups cooked