How it's used
Used cooked in soups, salads, chilli, or as a filling in tacos or burritos. Recipe quantities use cooked weight, suitable for a batch-cooked or frozen portion.
Legumes
black beans
Small, oval-shaped beans with a rich, slightly sweet flavor and firm texture.
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In the kitchen
Substitutes
Kidney beans โPinto beans
Pairs well with
Pair with vitamin C-rich vegetables to help offset the iron-absorption-blocking phytates in beans.
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Recipes that use black beans
MealLatin American
Black Bean Avocado Breakfast Arepas
Two portable arepa-style corn cakes filled with black beans, tofu crumble, avocado-lime mash, tomato, coriander and toasted pumpkin seeds.
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Frijoles Fatteh
A Latin American-Levantine layered plate of crisp tortilla shards, smoky black beans, charred vegetables and cool avocado garlic-lime yogurt.
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Smoky Pulled Jack Bowl
Smoky BBQ-glazed pulled jackfruit and black beans over lemon barley and wilted kale, with a tangy yogurt-mustard drizzle.
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Gallo Pinto with Avocado
Costa Rican and Nicaraguan-inspired rice and black beans fried through pepper-onion sofrito, plated with lime, coriander and avocado.
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Pupusa Lunchbox with Curtido
A portable pupusa-style lunchbox with black bean filling, griddled maize dough, quick cabbage-carrot curtido, hot sauce and pumpkin seeds.
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What 100 g contributes
Nutrition summary
At a glance
Higher inFolateFibrePhosphorus
Calories
100kcal
35% cal
Protein
8.9g
60% cal
Carbs
15.0g
5% cal
Fat
0.5g
Small numbers, big impact
Everyday essentials
Fibre8.70g
Vitamin B120.00ฮผg
Vitamin D0.00ฮผg
Iodine0.00ฮผg
Iron2.10mg
Zinc1.12mg
Calcium27.00mg
Nutrition values are estimates and can vary with variety, brand, cooking method and water content.