Black Bean-Cucumber Salad

It is 1:30 pm, I haven't had a decent breakfast and now I am really hungry and I want something spicy, hot but healthy. I open the fridge - the veggie draw - 1 cucumber among other things I did not care for was making goggle eyes at me. Just plain cucumber salad - No! BORING! I open my pantry to see if there was some ready to eat packets - Cans of black beans were the first thing to strike me - Pulled one out... Good I had my cuke and I had a can of beans - how can i make this interesting? I open the fridge again and I see the beautiful remains of an orange and yellow bell pepper - The idea is becoming clearer - I am now back at the pantry swiping a can of dice tomatoes. The rest was instinctual! Exactly 10 minutes start to finish, since when you do decide to make this, you already have a plan :-)

Ingredients

I used 1 can of black beans (washed and drained)

1 cucumber

1/4 each of red and yellow bell pepper

1/4 can of diced tomatoes or 1 fresh tomato

2 green chillies

Some tortilla chips (optional)

Cheddar cheese and Cilantro to garnish

Preparation

Add the tomatoes, beans and chillies to a pan with a teaspoon of olive oil. 

Toss them around

Add some salt 

Put it in a bowl, 

Arrange peeled and diced cukes around

Add the peppers in a similar manner

dress it up with shredded cheddar and cilantro

OR crush some tortilla chip atop

There is a certain satisfaction to have the hot beans with the cold cucumbers and peppers...Satisfies the temperature needs as well.

Note: if you want more spice, you can add some salsa and mix it in to the beans

Last Word: Don't forget the key ingredient - LOVE