Zesty Beef & Black Bean Salad
with Tortilla Chips, Sour Cream & Hot Sauce
- Milk
- Wheat
- Soy
Fajita-spiced ground beef is tossed with hearty black beans, fresh tomato, and a bright squeeze of lime juice for this Tex-Mex-inspired salad. Served in shallow bowls with tortilla chips for scooping, it comes together in under 15 minutes. Sour cream, hot sauce, and extra lime wedges on the side let everyone customize their bowl.
Ingredients
3 tablespoon
Sour Cream
(Contains: Milk)
10 ounce
Ground Beef
½ tablespoon
Fajita Spice Blend
1 unit
Black Beans
1 unit
Tomato
1 unit
Lime
6 unit
Flour Tortillas
(Contains: Wheat, Soy)
2 teaspoon
Hot Sauce
Not included in your delivery
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
1 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Cooking Oil
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add beef*, breaking up meat into pieces; season with half the Fajita Spice Blend (all for 4 servings), a pinch of salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl.
*Swap in beef for chicken.
Open package of beef* and drain off any excess liquid. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add beef, breaking up meat into pieces; season with half the Fajita Spice Blend (all for 4 servings), salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl.
*Swap in beef for chicken.
Roughly break tortillas in half.
To bowl with beef, add beans, tomato, juice from half the lime, a pinch of salt, and pepper. Stir to combine.
Divide beef and black bean salad between shallow bowls. Serve with tortilla chips for scooping and sour cream, hot sauce, and remaining lime wedges on the side.
Roughly break tortillas in half.
Dice tomato. To bowl with beef, add drained beans, diced tomato, juice from half the lime, salt, and pepper. Stir to combine.
Divide beef and black bean salad between shallow bowls. Serve with tortilla chips for scooping and sour cream, hot sauce, and remaining lime wedges on the side.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The fajita-spiced beef is tasty, but many found the overall dish mild — the cold black beans and raw tomato made it feel flat without extra seasoning 🌶️. The sour cream was a highlight for several reviewers, carrying much of the flavor.
- Ease of prep: Quick and easy to pull together; one reviewer simplified cleanup by adding the beans and tomatoes directly to the pan with the meat for a one-pan finish.
- Suggestions: Warm the beans in the pan with the meat and remaining fajita seasoning for better flavor; add corn, jalapeños, cilantro, or avocado to round out the dish. Serving over a bed of lettuce or alongside cilantro-lime rice made it feel more complete for several customers.
- Leftovers: Leftovers repurpose well into taco salad or quesadillas the next day.
Reviews from our home cooks
Tortilla chips are a great way to use up extra tortillas. I only thought of this when going to a Mexican restaurant and their chips were just extra crispy tortillas. I will be doing this in the future since I love crispy tortillas. As for the recipe itself, it was great. I didn't know it was a cold salad, but it kind of works out actually. In this one, the fajita spice wasn't as overpowering because I only used one pack.
So easy and good! I did a bit of editing. I drained my black beans then boiled them for about 10 minutes while chicken cooked. Also added tomatoes to chicken and cooked about 2 mins. Added it all together and choose to add my favorite hot sauce. But definitely something I would get again!
Idk what's up w cheaping out on dark meat chicken only included nowadays, but that's another story. Meal was so bland! Had to add extra salt & my own salsa to give it some flavor! Really disappointing paying all this money & getting such cheap ingredients.
It was good, but needed something green and herby. The chips also needed some salt added as a part of the recipe instructions.
I expected this to be kinda average, but it was actually very tasty, and the toasted tortillas were a nice touch, something different. Would probably order again!
very easy and tasty, i'm picky about chicken but really liked it
I enjoyed this meal a lot and what made the meal was the sour cream!
Sooo delicious, and it will be easy to adjust with different ingredients.
Neat twist to making the tortillas a hard fluffy shell. Great combination
This was tasty but needed something more. I added corn and put it on a bed of lettuce.
