Homemade Black Bean Corn Salsa
This super quick and easy homemade black bean corn salsa recipe is where fiber meets flavor! In my article, 10 Best Tips & Tricks to Speed up your Metabolism, I talked about all the ways in which you can naturally boost your metabolism. A couple points I made in that article were about how high fiber foods and peppers can help to speed up your metabolism and encourage weight loss!
Fiber takes longer for your body to break down, hence, you feel fuller longer. And eating peppers, which contain capsaicin, cause heat production in your body that burns more calories!
This homemade black bean corn salsa recipe contains ingredients high in fiber and capsaicin!
Included in this black bean and corn salsa recipe are two jalapeno peppers. Scoville units represent the amount of capsaicin in a pepper. A jalapeno has a Scoville score of 4,000. That is a lot of capsaicin!!
This salsa recipe also includes a can of black beans. One can of black beans contains 32g of fiber. That’s 126% of your daily recommended fiber!
The corn in this black bean and corn salsa recipe also contains a high amount of fiber to enhance this salsa’s metabolic boosting abilities!
For more recipes where FIBER meets FLAVOR check out my:
Here is everything that you will need for this flavor-packed salsa:
To make homemade black bean corn salsa all you need is a blender!
Simply add all the ingredients to your blender/food processor and blend until smooth!
PRO TIP: If your blender tends to get overwhelmed, start with the ingredients that blend the easiest. Start with lime juice, garlic, black beans with juice, and hot sauce. Then add in the chunkier ingredients gradually.
You will have your flavorful salsa ready in no time!
If you aren’t ready for it quite yet, simply store it in an air tight container in the fridge. But if you can’t resist diving right in then grab some chips and start munching!!
This salsa pairs SO well with SO many dishes!
Most recently I paired it with homemade carnitas tacos, but it is great with any Mexican style dish!
When I first started making this salsa, I made it as a Pico de Gallo as a topping for tilapia! However, it works well paired with several different white fish! **Try it with cod, sole, flounder, seabass or halibut!
**Instructions to make this salsa into a Pico de Gallo can be found below the recipe 🙂
Homemade Black Bean Corn Salsa
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
- 5 Roma Tomatoes remove stem root and cut in half
- 1 can Golden Corn drained
- 1 can Black Beans (undrained) **add another can of drained black beans to add more fiber and reduce heat level if needed
- 1/2 med Red Onion chopped in chucks
- 1 bunch Fresh Cilantro cut off long stems (**okay to leave some stem)
- 1 tbsp Minced Garlic
- 1/2 Lime juice from lime only
- 2 med Jalapeno Peppers remove stem and seeds and cut in half
- 1 tsp Hot Sauce **or to taste
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to the blender.
- Blend until smooth.
- Serve.
- Store left overs in fridge in an air tight container.
Notes
- Finely chop the onion, tomatoes, jalapenos, and cilantro (removing ALL stems).
- Drain the black beans.
- Mix all ingredients together.
- Serve.
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28 Comments
Ghanashyam K
I’ve never had salsa before since they’re not popular in my country. I will have to try this at home!
JC
What a great, yummy combination! Healthy too!
Lois
I love black beans and corn, a great combination for salsa.
Kathy
This looks amazing. I love having black bean corn salsa. I’ve made it before and it’s really good.
heatherseeley
My daughter loves black beans. I will have to make this salsa for her.
Sandy N Vyjay
We love black beans and they are packed with nutrition. This seems to be a really tasty and healthy recipe for black bean salsa.
Anosa Malanga
Been searching for more food recipes that will help out on my diet. I guess this one is good since it’s high in fiber. Will print out your recipe and add up to my “to cook” list.
Nikki Wayne
This sounds great. I would love it in carnitas too.
Tasheena
This recipe looks really flavorful. Looking forward to giving this recipe a try.
Janeane M. Davis, J. D.
I have a daughter who loves black beans. This would be a nice treat for her. I am looking forward to trying it.
Her Key
Yum! I’m definitely saving this for later. I’ve been looking for recipes to help with losing this quarantine weight!
Singing A New Song
Mmmm. You had me at “capsaicin”! My family is going to love this black bean salsa, I don’t believe I’ve ever made it before!
Vidya Tiru
so easy to make and so delish looking too..
Ashley t
This salsa looks so good and I love that its simple to make.
momsshoutout
hubby loves black beans.. i want to try this for him
Catalina
This sounds very interesting! I am so curious to make this black bean corn salsa.
Beth
This looks delicious! I love black beans and will try this recipe soon.
ThirtySomethingSuperMom.com
This sounds really good. I am all about a delicious salsa. I should make this soon, I bet the whole family would love it.
Nikki Wayne
I can’t wait to try this salsa,I love black beans.
Nishtha
Such an easy and quick recipe! Love beans
Sandra
I have got to try this one. It looks so tasty!!
platypus6
This looks great – I might have to drop the hot sauce though. I’m a baby about too much spiciness!
Nishtha
Looks yum! Being a vegetarian love proteins including beans. So good with tacos!
Amber Myers
This looks so good! I will have to try this out over the weekend.
Ben
Hoo boy, that looks good. I would put that right on top of my taco and then hit it with some sour cream.
Anonymous
This sounds like something I need to try!
Nahyun
This looks amazing! I love black beans and salsa! I’ve never seen this combo so definitely trying!
Audrey
This looks so easy, I need to try it!!