Best black beans with avocado salad from Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food (page 62) by Julia Turshen

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  • breakthroughc on November 02, 2025

    The beans were much better the second day.

  • breakthroughc on November 01, 2025

    I’m with the majority here. The salad is good, but the beans were not. I think the sofrito over powers the beans. I would not make the beans again.

  • mdagl on May 23, 2024

    Avocado salad was simple and delicious. Will make it again repeatedly. The black beans were not a favorite. I think it was primarily the addition of the smoked paprika that threw everything off, because the rest of the ingredients in the sofrito were pretty standard. Served with rice.

  • westminstr on December 03, 2021

    I liked the avocado salad (but skipped the tomato bc December). The beans were not the best, sadly. Just didn’t love the sofrito- maybe it was the spices? I had lovely black beans from Oaxaca & almost preferred them without the sofrito.

  • bernalgirl on August 31, 2021

    My batch skewed sweet and I don’t know if it’s the ayacote amarillo beans or the addition of a single red-ish pepper. I’ll try again with black beans and only green peppers

  • PennyG on June 28, 2021

    I just made the beans from this recipe and they were some of the BEST black beans I have ever made! This will be my go-to black-bean recipe going forward.

  • hbakke on May 22, 2021

    I liked the avocado/tomato salad, but the beans were not something I would make again. The smoked paprika was a bit overpowering and the sofrito mixture was kind of gritty.

  • Lepa on May 20, 2021

    We loved this dinner. The beans were exceptionally tasty and the salad was good, too. I used cherry tomatoes because tomatoes aren't in season and it was a good substitute. We ate this with cornbread, cheese and sour cream and it was a great dinner.

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