How to Make a Black Bean Salsa

Series Summary

Black bean salsa is a healthy and nutritious recipe that’s great for lunch or dinner. This recipe doesn't take much preparation to make, and it’s worth it. Full of protein and nutritional antioxidants, black beans have a meaty flavor reminiscent of mushrooms, making them popular with vegans and vegetarians. Try this recipe today and see why black beans are used in so many South American dishes, including feijoada, the national dish of Brasil!

In this free video series, our expert Sheryl McGlochlin will teach you how to make a black bean salsa. She will talk about the ingredients, getting set up, buying in bulk, storing black beans, and 5 things to think about when feeding a family. She will teach you how you soak the beans, strain the beans, slow cook the beans, and serve the beans. She will then show you more ingredients for black bean salsa, talk about the health and other benefits of black beans, and talk about other uses of black beans. Finally Sheryl will show you how to use a pressure cooker to cook the black beans, and tell you the difference between pinto and black beans.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name Sheryl McGlochlin with crazysheryl.com and welcome to expertvillage.com. Today we are going to be making really delicious black bean salsa. I'm going to show you how to make this really inexpensive. It is definitely delicious, it is a great snack, it is a great meal, it is very nutritious and you would want to have it whether you have a family or individually and it is absolutely delicious and it would save you a lot of money. We are going to learn how to actually make beans instead of buying a can of beans. We are going to learn just a few key ingredients that you can wipe this up in just a few minutes. It does not take very long and it cost just pennies on the dollars to be able to make this. It is really delicious and I'm going to give you some reasons why you should eat more beans. It is a very healthy food, it is one of the most unprocessed foods and we are going to wrap all these up in the next few segments of making black bean salsa."