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:

Oatmeal Crazin Cookies

Bonkers Brownies

Epic Stovetop Popcorn

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

Bri

High Fiber, Metabolism Boosting Salsa that compliments a variety of dishes.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 5 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Mexican

Servings 28

Calories 30 kcal

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

I used to make this salsa as a Pico De Gallo.  To make it a Pico:

1. Finely chop the onion, tomatoes, jalapenos, and cilantro (removing ALL stems).  
2. Drain the black beans.
3. Mix all ingredients together.
4. Serve.

Keyword black bean, corn, salsa

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