Easy, cheesy magnificently delicious Ground Beef Taco Casserole with black beans, bell pepper, salsa, cheese, and a whole lot of taco flavor! If you’re a Mexican food fanatic and love all things cheesy, you’ll go wild over this fresh and tasty recipe!
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Sweet Potato and Black Bean Vegetarian Tacos with avocado, cheese, and enchilada dipping sauce makes for the most magnificent meatless taco recipe. Make these yummy, filling tacos when you’re craving light and healthy comfort food that is also satisfying and delicious!
Easy Stove Top Beef Chili is the simplest, best chili recipe for those times you’re craving filling comfort food! This is that hearty, thick, classic chili recipe that hits the spot every time!
Flourless, rich and delicious Black Bean Brownies that are moist, fudgy, and have amazing texture! You’d never guess they’re made with beans!
Ground Turkey Taco Soup with black beans, corn, and fresh veggies for a high-protein, low-fat, delicious soup! This healthy soup recipe is easy to make in big batches for meal prepping for weeknight meals.
3-Bean Turkey Chili recipe with pinto beans, black beans, and kidney beans. Bold in flavor with a splash of wine and cocoa powder.
Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup is jam packed with delicious flavor and is so easy to prepare! This simple meal is ready in less than an hour.
Turkey Pumpkin Chili with black beans and fresh tomatoes makes for a comforting, satisfying and nutritious dinner recipe. You can even batch cook it to enjoy throughout the cold autumn and winter months!
Double Chocolate Edible Cookie dough an egg-less vegan recipe! Made with black beans, sweetened with pure maple syrup, gluten-free.
Double Chocolate Vegan Black Bean Cookies made with 6 simple ingredients! These healthy cookies are gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and completely flourless! Whip them up in a food processor (or blender) for an amazingly rich and delicious dessert.
Ready for the alpha omega black bean dessert??
If you’ve pursued my site a time or two, you’ve likely seen a bean-infused dessert or twelve. I’ve made brownies, cookies, even banana bread using black beans or garbanzo beans!
After posting my 6-Ingredient Vegan Peanut Butter Chickpea Cookies and the crowd went wild, I knew, I just KNEW I would need to make a black bean version. And look what we have here!
Double Chocolate Vegan Black Bean Cookies that are..
- Gluten-free & grain-free
- Dairy-free
- Refined sugar-free
- Egg-free
- Oil-Free
- Flourless
- …and CRAZY moist, fudgy, and perfectly textured!
Imagine a cookie and a brownie made sweet, sweet love and the end result was the richest most death-by-chocolate situation that ever did grace your mouth. That is what these black bean cookies are like.
ALSO, there is flexibility with this recipe. You can eat it raw as edible cookie dough, turn them into a batch of brownies, or single-serve brownies.
Black Bean Corn Salad with lemon poppy seed dressing is a fresh and vibrant side dish perfect for summer gatherings. It can also be used as a condiment for tacos, burrito bowls, or green salads!
Flourless Black Bean Banana Bread made with everyone’s favorite magical fruit! Naturally sweetened, gluten-free, grain-free, moist and fluffy!
If you’ve been following along my site for a number of years, you may be familiar with my classic bean-infused dessert recipes. Just take for instance, my Black Bean Brownies, Vegan Garbanzo Bean Blondies, Dark Chocolate Chickpea Brownies or my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Chickpea Bars. My mouth is watering just typing the words.
Suffice it to say, we are not strangers to treats made with the magical fruit.
I had it in my head for many moons to develop a Black Bean Banana Bread recipe, and finally got around to actioning it. The end result? Ultra moist, fluffy, AMAZING chocolate-y rich banana bread that you’d never in a zillion years guess is made with black beans.
Because I have a ton of dry black beans in my pantry, I cooked a big batch and used 1 and ¾ cup in this recipe. You can easily use a 15-ounce can of black beans (or garbanzo beans) instead!
My favorite part about this black bean banana bread, aside from the fact that it’s a melt-in-your-face depiction of wildly delicious dreams, is that the batter comes together in seconds in the blender. It’s just so easy to prepare!
Some Recipe Highlights:
- Gluten-Free
- Flourless
- Refined Sugar-Free
- Grain-Free
- Chocolatey, moist, rich, delicious!
How about we cut right to it??
Color me telepathic, but I have a sneaking suspicion you could use an easy meal using mostly pantry ingredients.
Sometimes we need cooking to be the easiest thing we’ve done all day or could simply use a win, and this vegan black bean sweet potato skillet is exactly that!
Incorporating basic ingredients you likely already have on hand, you’ll likely not even need to leave the house to make this beauty happen.
Bonus points: this recipe makes a TON of food – great for feeding the whole family or for meal prepping.
Bonus points, the sequel: You can make all sorts of changes to this meal based on what you have on hand!
This colorful, nutritious meal includes sweet potato, black beans, quinoa, bell pepper, onion, garlic, salsa and chili powder. The end result? A hearty meal that’ll tickle the tongue buds and make you feel satisfied.
The best part? This vegan Mexican inspired meal is so easy to prepare. Let’s talk about it!
How to cook dry black beans in the Instant Pot – a quick and easy method for cooking dried black beans (or any beans) that doesn’t require soaking.
Vegan Pumpkin Chili with black beans and quinoa is a hearty meal perfect for fall and winter. This meatless chili is easy to adapt using your favorite vegetables and beans.