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Refreshing chickpea salad full of color What's better than a tasty salad on either a day that it is hot or that you want a light meal or you plan to go out for dinner so you have a light lunch. Moreover if it is full of beautiful colors and is a full but light meal where its nutrients are concerned. Add chickpeas, cucumber, tomatoes, red onion and parsley to a bowl. Measure out olive oil into a liquid measuring cup, pour in lemon juice, garlic, Italian seasoning and season with salt and pepper to taste.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have refreshing chickpea salad full of color using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Refreshing chickpea salad full of color:
- Get For the salad
- Prepare 1 cup dry chickpeas
- Prepare 1 iceburg lettuce or just a plain one
- Take 3-4 tomatoes
- Make ready 2 cucumbers, peeled or with their skin if they are organic
- Get 2 sweet peppers (green)
- Make ready juice of one lime or lemon
- Prepare salt
- Make ready pepper
- Get 1-2 tbsp olive oil (it is enough)
- Make ready For the sauce
- Take 1 cup low fat yogurt (200 g), best if it is 2% strained for a better texture
- Take 1 tbsp tabasco green sauce
- Prepare finely chopped parsley
Place the ingredients in a large serving bowl with rinsed chickpeas and crumbled feta cheese. In a separate bowl, make the dressing by mixing olive oil, lemon juice, SPLENDA, mustard, garlic and desired amount of salt and pepper. Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is light and refreshing and uses a quick vinegar dressing. Related Videos A chickpea salad with mint seems to add a lot of refreshing flavor that pops and adds a wonderful color.
Steps to make Refreshing chickpea salad full of color:
- Soak the chickpeas overnight in hot water. Early in the morning, before you cook them change the water and set them aside to soak some more (for a few hours). You have to start the whole process about 12-14 hours before.
- Boil the chickpeas for 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the pulses themselves as well as on how tender you want them to be. Don't let them get mushy.
- Prepare the sauce by mixing all the ingredients and place it in the fridge to cool well.
- When the chickpeas are almost ready, cut the tomato and cucumber into cubes and the lettuce and pepper into thin strips. Mix with the rest of the ingredients. Strain the chickpeas well when they are done and add them to the salad.
Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is light and refreshing and uses a quick vinegar dressing. Related Videos A chickpea salad with mint seems to add a lot of refreshing flavor that pops and adds a wonderful color. Both the mint and orange zest definitely add a Mediterranean flavor that can be found in Northern Africa and Southern Spain. In the end, you have a healthy chickpea salad that's vegan. This mediterranean chickpea salad is a light, refreshing, protein packed snack perfect for noshing!
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