Vegan Low Fat Cowboy Caviar
 
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Are you looking for a tasty way to get in more veggies and plant-based protein? This Vegan Low Fat Cowboy Caviar is a wonderfully refreshing and tasty way to increase your intake of veggies and fiber all through the power of plants. Meeting your recommended daily intake of fiber can help lower cholesterol and support digestion while keeping you full for longer periods of time. This recipe has 12 grams of fiber in each serving! Lentils and beans are also rich with plant-based protein and each 1½ cups serving provides 12 grams of protein. Another highlight about this recipe is how versatile the bean choice can be. I’ve used lentils, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, black beans, and red kidney beans, and they all taste delicious together. Sometimes I’ll even use 3 different types of beans/legumes in 1 recipe and it is fabulous. And beans are good sources of iron. In each serving, this recipe provides 22% of your daily iron needs. Time to feel good while enjoying delicious food. Bonus Alert: this recipe only takes 15 minutes to make! Double Bonus Alert: Make this recipe even faster by saving time on chopping vegetables with the Fullstar Vegetable Chopper. This is my favorite way to chop onions and it won’t make you cry. It is also dishwasher safe and makes the chopping/slicing/dicing experience so quick. Once you use the vegetable chopper, it will be hard to go back to cutting things by hand. This is a fabulous kitchen tool.
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Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: Latin
Serves: 7
Ingredients
  • 4 bell peppers, mixed colors, deseeded and diced
  • 1 small red onion, peeled and diced
  • 1 bunch of cilantro, chopped
  • 3 jalapenos, seeds and stems removed, diced
  • 6 small tomatoes, diced and strained
  • 12 oz steamed lentils
  • 2 cans of beans, rinsed and drained ***you can use any cans of beans/legumes you have such as black-eyed peas, black beans, pinto beans, or red kidney beans***it is nice to mix it up and have variety
  • Juice of two limes
  • 1 cup lite Italian dressing
  • 1 avocado, peeled, pit removed, diced
  • Serve with (optional):
  • Quinoa, cooked
  • Lettuce
  • Tortilla chips
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, add all ingredients except the avocado, stir to combine.
  2. Add avocado and gently stir.
  3. Serve with quinoa cooked in broth or over a bed of lettuce or with a handful of tortilla chips for a satisfying crunch.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1.5 cups Calories: 280 Fat: 8 Saturated fat: 1 Carbohydrates: 45 Sugar: 13 Fiber: 12 Protein: 12 Cholesterol: 0
Recipe by Sarah Koszyk at https://sarahkoszyk.com/vegan-low-fat-cowboy-caviar/