Bean salads make wonderful accompaniments to burgers, grilled chicken, or sausages. Using canned beans rather than dried makes a bean salad extra easy to prepare. Look for beans labeled "low-salt", which will allow you more leeway in seasoning the salad to taste; if you can't find them, be very judicious in your addition of salt. The dressing here gives the salad an enticing Caribbean/Latin American slant. Use a standard commercial chili powder blend, which usually includes hints of cumin and oregano along with the ground red chile. Fresh jalapeño chile adds an extra bright spark of flavor.
