Can opener recipe: Black Bean and Tropical Fruit Salsa
May 10th, 2009 by prissycook
There are about 7 months of the year where we in Arizona can get a little full of ourselves. We talk with our relatives from other parts of the country and say, “Yep, it’s about 75 degrees here today. What did you say, you’re in a (fill in the blank): tornedo warning, whiteout blizzard, hail the size of grapefruit, hundred year flood. But that time is coming to an end.
Pretty soon we’ll have breezes that feel like you’ve turned on a hair dryer and pointed it straight at your face and night time temperatures that don’t dip below triple digits. And when all your phone conversations to home have some sort of comment about the Arizona dry heat.
My summer cooking regiment in Arizona is an odd mix of “mix it in” salads and cupcakes. Salads because they’re cool and refreshing and cupcakes, because summer is the time of year when I feel most confined to the house. I celebrated one of the last heat tolerable nights of the Spring by making a Black Bean and Tropical Fruit Salsa.
Black Bean and Tropical Fruit Salsa
1 can drained and rinsed black beans
1 cup of yellow corn
1 cup diced fresh pineapple
1 cup diced fresh mango
3 T finely diced purple onion
2 T finely diced jalapenos
2 cups diced tomatoes
1/2 chopped cilantro
3 T fresh lime juice
Season with garlic, salt and pepper to taste
Mix in a bowl and give it an hour in the fridge so the flavors can mix.
This “salsa” ate more like a spiced up black bean salad although that didn’t stop me from using a chip as my preferred delivery device.
Other mix in salads on this blog:
Confetti Salad
Quinoa Salad
Black Bean Couscous Salad
Other salad recipes:
Black Bean Confetti Salad at Smitten Kitchen
Confetti Pasta Salad at Good-bye Martha
Keesha oversees recruiting and training programs for GoDaddy.com. She is responsible for building programs that attract and retain amazing employees.
Keesha loves food and photography and is passionate about community volunteering. She sat on the board of directors for the Junior League of Phoenix and is on the Children's Museum of Phoenix committee. She attended Blinn College and Texas A&M University. Her most private cupcake confession? She doesn't like frosting!