Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
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Yummy chickpea salad recipe with a Mediterranean flavor you will want to make over and over! Great healthy lunch or easy side dish that keeps well.
Chickpeas or garbanzo beans are such a great way to fill up on something healthy. Chickpeas are a great way to incorporate protein into your diet, especially if you don’t eat meat. I have found that if I use a high-quality can of chickpeas, the flavor seems to be much better. The generic ones I have used seem to be a bit tasteless and much harder.
This salad is great for a filling lunch to take to work, picnic, or side dish for any meal. I love to serve this with burgers, BBQ, and hotdogs in the summer.
I really love making this salad when my cherry tomatoes and green peppers are producing in the garden. A perfect way to use fresh ingredients straight from the garden.
Normally Mediterranean-style salads are made with kalamata olives but I find them really salty and I prefer to use black olives. I also use my homemade yogurt in this recipe. There is no flavoring or sugar in it which saves on calories.
When it’s lemon season in Florida, I will use my small juicer and freeze the lemon juice in a small silicone ice tray. It’s a perfect way to keep fresh lemon juice always available for recipes like this. Just freeze and store in the freezer. One cube is about a tablespoon.
Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
INGREDIENTS
Salad:
- 2 15 oz cans Chickpeas
- 1/4 cup Parsley
- 2/3 cup Chopped Bell Pepper
- 3/4 cup Grape Tomatoes
- 12 Black Olives
- 1/3 cup Feta Cheese
Dressing:
- 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp plain yogurt
- 1 tbsp squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tbsp red win vineager
- 1 small garlic minced
- 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a large bowl, toss together the salad ingrediants.
- In a smaller seperate bowl, whisk together the dressing ingrediants.
- Drizzle the dressing over the salad mixture and refrigerate until ready to serve.
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That salad looks great and packed with protein. As a vegan i am always looking for a healthy new dish and one that has garbanzos sounds amazing.
This looks delicious! I am trying to eat more greens/veggies, so I’m always looking for new things to try. Thanks for the recipe idea.
Mediterranean flavors make me so happy so I would be thrilled with this salad!
I’m going to make this for lunch tomorrow, it looks delicious and surprisingly, I have all the ingredients at home!
This salad looks incredible and I love the idea of freezing lemon juice.
This recipe looks so bright and vibrant It is wonoderful to make fresh whle food meals with great ingredients.
Can’t beat a delicious Summer salad like this one. I’m a huge fan of chickpeas and I like the combo with olives. I’m going to make this one. Thanks for sharing 🙂
This salad looks so delicious and nutritious! Saving this one for summer
Now this sounds like a good salad – I have to admit chickpeas aren’t something that would straight away come to mind when thinking of salad.
I love chickpeas and I’m always looking for new ways to prepare them. This looks delicious!
This dish looks so deliciously good. I wish I could eat that right this minute!
Chickpeas is my favorite salad. I make it with tuna and tomatoes. I will definitely try your recipe. It looks so tasty!
Looks like a really yummy salad! I am excited to make one for the family.