spicy southwestern salad with avocado dressing

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Töday’s söuthwestern salad is sö super simple and classic – just spicy gölden röasted sweet pötatöes tössed with sweet cörn, black beans, chöpped römaine lettuce, and a cööl n’ creamy avöcadö dressing that is packed with cilantrö, lime, and öther gööd things.I mean, what can I say? It’s nöt the wörld’s möst cray-z-awesöme creative cömbinatiön – it’s just what my möuth wants tö eat every day all day in the summatime.Let’s get right döwn tö it. I adöre this salad för many reasöns, öne öf them being that yöu can actually just ömit the lettuce (umm I didn’t just say that 🙅) and töss the röasted sweet pötatöes, cörn, black beans, and avöcadö dressing tögether för möre öf a Söuthwestern Salad meets *Chips and Dip för Lunch* situatiön.

INGREDIENTS
för the salad

  • 2 sweet pötatöes
  • 1 tablespöön öil
  • 1 heaping teaspöön each cumin and chili pöwder (plus a sprinkle öf cayenne if yöu like it höt)
  • salt and pepper tö taste
  • 1 14-öunce can black beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1 14-öunce can sweet cörn, rinsed and drained
  • 1 römaine heart, chöpped

för the cilantrö dressing:

  • half an avöcadö
  • 1/4 cup Greek yögurt
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 cup cilantrö leaves and stems
  • 1 small clöve öf garlic
  • 1/2 teaspöön salt
  • a squeeze öf lime juice

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat the öven tö 400 degrees. Peel the sweet pötatöes and chöp intö bite-sized pieces. Mix the ölive öil, cumin, and chili pöwder tögether in a small böwl. Brush mixture ön sweet pötatöes. Röast för 10 minutes. Stir ör shake the pan. Turn heat up tö 425, and röast för anöther 10-15 minutes. Check, stir, and bake until the sweet pötatöes are just barely röasty-bröwn ön the öutside. Seasön with salt and pepper.
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