Easy Dinner Ideas: Southwest Dense Bean Salad

I made a dense bean salad for dinner last night because I’ve been seeing them all over and was finally craving it bad enough. I added cabbage because I needed to use it up and chicken as the extra protein.

Ingredients:

Half a head of cabbage

1 can black beans

1 can pinto beans

1 can sweet corn

1 block white cheddar cheese

Half a red onion

1 English cucumber

1 red pepper

3 chicken breast

Half bottle ranch dressing

Packet of taco seasoning

Salt

Pepper

I cut the chicken into bite size pieces and pan fried them until done. Half way through cooking I seasoned the chicken with a little less than half the packet of taco seasoning. While that was cooking I chopped all the veggies into small pieces and threw in a large bowl. To make the dressing I used half the bottle of ranch and added the rest of the taco seasoning packet and poured over the bowl and mixed.

The recipes usually call for a vinaigrette of sorts however my mother in law hates vinegar so I improvised!

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