BEAR'S SPICY 3 BEAN AVOCADO SALAD

Bear's Spicy 3 Bean Avocado Salad

Ingredients:-

3 Nori seaweed sheets per bowl
1 Avocado
2 Small red onions
1 or 2 cloves of garlic
1 Standard can of 3 beans
4 to 6 finger chillies

Serves 1 or 2 people.

The Method

Remove 3 Nori seaweed sheets and create a nest in the bowl by tearing the sheets into bit sized fragments.

Now you'll need a separate bowl to mix the rest of the ingredients.

Cut the onions, chillies and garlic finely, place in the bowl. Add a splash of vinegar and mix together. Or, alternatively, you can use the juice of 2 lemons instead! Lemon juice will bring out the flavours more!

Drain the beans and add them to the onion, chilies and garlic. Mix well... Then add black pepper and cayenne pepper to taste. I like my salads SPICY and HOT! Because the beans are quite bland in taste pink Himalayan salt is added - just a couple of sprinkles! You're just offsetting the blandness with a bit of salt! If you suffer from hypertension, you need to be careful with your salt intake. Give it a mix and have a taste. You may find that it could do with a smidgen of salt and a splash of vinegar or lemon juice. At this point you could add two tablespoon of Maple leaf syrup to liven the taste up! If you do add Maple leaf syrup be sure to mix it well. It goes so well with the lemon juice; sweet 'n' sour!

Ideally, you could cover the bowl and marinate the mixture overnight in the refrigerator; it'll make a difference to overall flavour. You could buy a 3 bean can that's already spiced but it never tastes right - at least to me.

Leave the mixture to stand for a bit... Cut your avocado in two, remove the stone and the skin. You can either slice the avocado into medium slices lengthwise (see photo) to garnish on top or dice in medium sized cubes. Why not do both? Just add another avocado!

Add the mixture to the bowl nested with seaweed.

Enjoy! Love,

Bear XOXOXOXOXOXOXO