Halloween is around the corner so gatherings are around the corner as well, and we all need some real whole foods other than treats on our Halloween tables that are also festive! This Organic Black Bean Dip fits right in with the Halloween motif, plus it’s easy to make in bulk, nutritious, and filling.
Black Beans are full of protein, filling fiber, disease fighting antioxidants, and numerous vitamins and minerals. It also will balance out the sugar high’s that are usually lurking on Halloween! Black beans and most legumes contain carbohydrates that digest slowly. This slow digestion of the black beans helps maintain stable sugar levels which is ideal in general, but particularly helpful for a day like Halloween where sugar is rampant. Be sure to soak your black beans appropriately so as to make the beans more digestible, otherwise you may wreak some havoc on your gut and you want to be enjoying Halloween not sitting on the toilet, right?!
I have a strong belief that roasted garlic makes just about everything taste amazing, including this black bean dip. Garlic is a wonderful immune booster which is great for this time of year when many start getting colds and flu’s. What’s most noteworthy for Halloween is that garlic helps to stabilize sugar levels as well. Which gives you double the reason to make, share, and eat this black bean dip on Halloween.
The black color of the black beans makes this dip very appropriate for Halloween , plus you can design it in a dish anyway you choose. You could flatten it out and write R.I.P. with cashew dip and then put tortilla chips as headstones in it. I chose a more classic look here to show you that this dip can be made for more gatherings than just Halloween, and even just as an easy snack that you keep in your refrigerator. Enjoy warm or cold, and with veggies, tortilla chips, or as a side to a meal.
Enjoy Halloween this year without over dosing on sugar. Let whole real foods be a part of your celebrations this year.
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