The ultimate Monday conundrum: you want to eat something healthy + homemade for lunch, but you:
(a) are too busy playing weekend catch up to cook
(b) had too much fun this weekend + forgot to grocery shop
(c) just don’t want to cook, because Monday
(d) all of the above
The ultimate Monday solution: this no-cook bean salad recipe that comes together in five minutes and calls for ingredients you likely have in your fridge and pantry. Make it, learn it, memorize it for manic (but still meatless) Mondays to come.

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Ingredients:

  • 2 cups cooked black beans
  • 1/2 small sweet onion, very thinly sliced
  • 2 red bell peppers, diced
  • 1 jalapeño pepper, seeds removed and minced (keep seeds for extra heat)
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • juice of 1 lime
  • 1 tbsp. sesame oil
  • 1 tsp. chili garlic paste (more or less to taste)
  • 1/2 tsp. cumin
  • 1/4 tsp. sea salt (more to taste)

Directions:

  1. Mix black beans, onion and peppers together.
  2. Whisk together garlic, lime juice, sesame oil, chili garlic paste, cumin and salt, and dress salad.
  3. Let chill for at least one hour in the refrigerator and serve chilled or at room temperature.