The fact that taco salad has tortilla chips was all I needed to know to fall in love with it. I am completely on board with chips in a salad, but a crispy tortilla bowl will suffice. It’s quite brilliant and surely delicious.

Taco salad is a bold combination of spicy, creamy, cheesy, and crunchy ingredients, unlike other salads that focus on delicate lettuce and vinaigrette dressing.

This Black Bean Taco Salad extols all of those virtues, but it also has my heart because it requires no cooking at all. With just a little stirring and chopping, you’ll have a hearty, zesty, craveable main course salad.