Refreshing Kidney beans Salad

Ingredients –

  • Kidney beans – 2 + half cup
  • Pasta – 2 cups
  • Corn – ½ cup
  • Avocado – 1 ripe
  • Onion – half of an onion
  • Broccoli sprouts – handful
  • Cucumbers – 2 small
  • Kale – 1 cup
  • Spinach – 1 cup
  • Black pepper – 2 tsp
  • Lemon juice – 3 tsp
  • Salt – 3 tsp
  • Water ( for boiling pasta and kidney beans )

Directions –

  • Soak the two and half cups of kidney beans overnight.
  • In a pressure cook, boil the beans with 1 tbsp salt for 4 whistles. This depends on the pressure cooker you use. Once done, make sure to rinse with cold water so as to stop the process of cooking it further.
  • Cook the pasta to ‘al dente’ with salt and 1 tbsp of avocado oil.
  • In a bowl, mix the greens (spinach and arugula) with olive oil and pepper and the leaves absorb the oil for the flavor. Also, if possible, choose a cold pressed and an extra virgin olive oil for that robust flavor.
  • Chop cucumbers, onion and avocado into bite size pieces.
  • Toss all the ingredients into the greens bowl.
  • Finish it off with some more salt if required, black pepper, oregano & some more olive oil.