Tostada Recipe: Mexican Black Bean Salad Tostada

Mexican lovers rejoice!  This is delicous dish with a WW twist.  A tostada recipe that features avocado, corn and lime juice — simply tossed together and piled high on top of a crunchy corn tortilla.

Mexican Black Bean Salad Tostada Recipe

Do you love Mexican food?  Mmmmm, I do.  Chips and salsa?  Yes, please.  Chicken Chimichanga?  With extra sour cream, please.  Tacos?  I’ll take three!  And don’t even get me started on my love for fajitas.

If you’re a fan of Mexican, be sure to share one of your favorite dishes in the comments. I’d love to hear!

My husband and I ate a lot more Mexican when we lived in St. Louis.  We haven’t had a lot of it since we’ve moved, but it certainly hasn’t changed our love for the food.

I love to make tacos at home, but wanted to try something a little different.  I stumbled upon this WW Tostada Recipe and thought why not?  It was quite tasty.

The original recipe calls for jicama, but I wasn’t able to find any.  So I did a little digging and found that water chestnuts were a good substitute — they wouldn’t alter the taste, but would add a bit of crunch.

The hubs enjoyed them too, which is always a win-win.  Black beans, corn, avocado and cilantro are some of my favorite ingredients.  This is a perfectly flavorful dish that will be kind to your diet.  Enjoy!

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Mexican Black Bean Salad Tostada

Course Main Course

Cuisine Mexican

Keyword tostada

Prep Time 29 minutes

Cook Time 1 minute

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
• 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1/2 cup water chestnuts, drained and diced
• 1/4 cup frozen corn kernels, sweet and rinsed under hot water to defrost
• 1/4 cup avocado, diced
• 1/4 cup canned green chili peppers, diced
• 3 tbsp lime juice
• 2 tbsp cilantro, fresh and chopped
• 2 tbsp minced, uncooked red onion
• 1 large garlic clove, minced
• 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp table salt
• 4 small corn tortillas

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients, except tortillas, in a large bowl.  Mix to combine.
• Toast tortillas and top each of the four tortillas with approximately 3/4 cup of black bean salad.  

Notes

Yields 1 tostada per serving. Each serving is 2 SmartPoints on the FreeStyle program.

Note:  This recipe can easily be doubled for larger gatherings.

Here are few of my favorite Mexican inspired recipes:
Chicken Burrito Bowl
3-Ingredient Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken
Easy Shredded Chicken Tacos
Skillet Chicken Tacos

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