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Beef and bean salad

Published: 06.01.2016 » Last updated: 08.09.2022

Sweet, tangy, spicy. Meaty but served with enough vegetables to cut through the fat. It's a delicious one bowl meal.

Beef and Bean Salad Drizzled with Mayo

The first component — the salsa — benefits from sitting in the fridge overnight. There are so many flavors — tangy, spicy, sweet and salty — that need to blend together. And that takes time.

We used leftover salsa so it had enough time to sit and allow the flavors to blend. If you want to get all the flavors in this salad, I suggest making the salsa ahead of time. Let sit for at least three hours and it should be good.

You can use dried beans and cook it yourself. You’ll need to soak it in water for several hours before cooking. Then it’ll take a few hours of slow cooking for the beans to become tender. I usually do this overnight in the slow cooker.

If you want the short cut (and it isn’t a bad short cut at all), use canned beans. Just drain them well and they’re ready to go into the salsa.

As for the chilies… There are, of course, several varieties. Which variety you use will affect the heat level of the salsa. I used finger chilies which are quite mild.

If you’re using something hotter, like bird’s eye chilies, you may need to use less than the two to three tablespoonfuls recommended in the recipe. Well, unless your tolerance to hot food is really, really high.

Full recipe below

Beef and bean salad

Connie Veneracion
Well-browned ground beef and leftover bean and mango salsa were transformed into this beef and bean salad. Serve with tortilla and it's filling enough for a meal!
Beef and Bean Salad with Tortilla Chips
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine International
Servings 3 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup cooked beans any kind - well drained
  • ¾ cup roughly chopped ripe sweet mangoes
  • ¾ cup roughly chopped tomatoes
  • ⅓ cup roughly chopped onion
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons finely sliced chilies
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic - divided
  • lemon or lime juice - to taste
  • salt to taste
  • 500 grams ground fatty beef
  • mayonnaise
  • snipped parsley

Instructions
 

Make the salsa

  • Place the beans, mangoes, tomatoes, onion, chilies and half of the garlic in a bowl.
  • Drizzle in lemon or lime juice.
  • Add salt and pepper.
  • Taste. Adjust the seasonings, if needed.
  • Cover the bowl and chill for three hours, or overnight.
  • About ten minutes before you intend to serve the salad, take the salsa out of the fridge.

Cook the ground beef

  • Heat a heavy skillet (non-stick works best).
  • Spread the ground beef on the bottom of the skillet. Cook over high heat for about two minutes.
  • Add the remaining garlic. Sprinkle in salt and pepper.
  • Continue cooking for about five minutes, stirring occasionally, until the beef is browned and has rendered all its fat. Turn off the heat. The beef will continue to brown in the residual heat.

Assemble the beef and bean salad

  • Divide the salsa among thee bowls.
  • Top each with a third of the beef (you can leave the rendered fat in the skillet).
  • Drizzle with mayonnaise.
  • Sprinkle in snipped parsley.
  • Serve the beef and bean salad with tortilla chips or toasted bread.
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Keyword Beans, Ground Beef, Salad

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Connie Veneracion, Chiang Mai, 2020

Hi, I’m Connie!

Welcome to Umami Days, a blog that advocates innovative home cooking for pleasurable everyday dining. No trendy diets, no food fads and definitely no ludicrous recipe names like crustless quiche, noodleless pho or chocolate lasagna.

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