Avocado & Black Bean Tortas

Name: Avocado & Black Bean Tortas
Yield: Makes 2 Sandwiches
Ingredients: hot-pepper sauce, 1 tsp; queso fresco or cotija cheese, ¼ cup (1½ oz/45 g) crumbled; low-sodium refried black beans, ⅔ cup (5 oz/155 g), warmed or at room temperature; crusty sandwich rolls, 2, split; fresh lime juice, 1 tbsp; ripe tomato, 1, seeded and chopped; radishes, 2 large, thinly sliced; cabbage, 1 cup (3 oz/90 g) thinly shredded; ripe avocado, 1 small, pitted, peeled, and sliced

Preparation info

Makes
2
Sandwiches

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Healthy in a Hurry

By Karen Ansel and Charity Ferreira

Published 2012

About

This colorful sandwich, inspired by a Mexican torta, is packed full of fresh vegetables. You can use good-quality canned refried beans or make your own. If your market doesn’t carry Mexican cheeses, crumbled fresh goat cheese is a good substitute.

Ingredients

cabbage, 1 cup (3 oz/90 g) thinly shredded
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Lunch
Main course
Burger
Vegetarian

Method

Put cabbage, tomato, and radishes in a bowl and drizzle with lime juice and hot sauce and mix well. Set aside.
Using your fingers, remove some soft bread from insides of roll halves, making a hollow for sandwich filling. Toast rolls in a toaster or warm oven.
Spread half of refried beans over bottom half of each roll. Top with cheese and avocado slice