Senegalese Niébé Salad (Black-Eyed Bean Salad with Lime)
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Ingredients
- 800 g tinned black-eyed beans
- 4 ripe tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 1 red onion
- 1 green pepper
- 30 g fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 limes
- 1 fresh green chilli
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 ripe avocados
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 584 kcal
- Protein
- 18 g
- Carbohydrate
- 42.1 g
- of which sugars
- 10.5 g
- Fat
- 34.6 g
- of which saturates
- 5.6 g
- Fibre
- 18.6 g
- Salt
- 1.30 g
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Method
- 1
Drain and rinse the black-eyed beans and shake dry.
- 2
Finely chop the red onion, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and the juice of 1 lime and leave for 5 minutes to soften its bite.
- 3
Dice the tomatoes, cucumber and green pepper, finely chop the parsley and the green chilli (deseeded for less heat), and halve, stone and dice the avocados.
- 4
Whisk the juice of the second lime with the vegetable oil and a good pinch of salt, then toss everything together with the beans and the onion. Taste for salt and lime and serve straight away.

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