I was scared too. Take a leap... Trust me.
Black beans look like something gross to a kid that grows up eating happy meals and pizza for every meal. It took me until I was in my twenties to realize how awesome they were. The first way I would suggest to get a kid to start eating black beans is by putting them in a burrito. Don't tell them what you are putting in the burrito or whatever it is you want to call it. Just do it.
With any luck you will just take my word for it if you are the scared party involved. God knows it is almost impossible to get an adult to enjoy food they have been scared of since they were eating happy meals and pizza for every meal.
If you are in the adult category and haven't had the heart to make anything with black beans. Go to Chipotle and ask them to make a veggie burrito bowl and load that sucker with black beans. It is one of my most guilty pleasures in fast food - yes, Chipotle is fast food. However, if you don't get the tortilla and go with the bowl you will be saving yourself approximately 400 calories.
Once you manage to figure out that I am right and black beans are delicious you will find yourself looking for anything to put them into. One of my favorite black bean uses was as a burger. I forget where I had said burger, but it was basically a bunch of black beans mashed up into one patty of grillable deliciousness.
So, go ahead - put black beans in your salad, in your soup, in your oatmeal... okay, maybe not everything but go out on a limb. You will thank me later.
6 years ago
