Chickpea Salad

Super healthy salad that requires hardly any time to make. Fantastic as a side salad or light meal. 

Hello!

Today is Monday and it is definitely a salad day for me. I made one of my favourites – chickpea salad.

It’s a salad day because I had a huge Sunday Roast yesterday. Just look at that! Crisp crackling as well.

Now you know why I have to “detox” a little today.

This little salad does just the trick. It is super easy and does not require much chopping and dicing. I love this kind of salad.

I added chopped tomatoes and whole cherry tomatoes as I like how the cherry tomatoes go with the rest of the salad so I highly recommend that you add them in. This salad keeps so well in the fridge, just pack it into little containers and you are good to go!

Chickpea Salad

Prep Time: 15 minutes / Serves 2 as a main meal and 4 as a side dish

Ingredients

250gm bag of mixed salad leaves

2 Tomatoes (chopped)

10 Cherry Tomatoes

1 Cucumber (chopped)

10 Black pitted olives (halved)

400gm tin of Chickpeas (drained weight – 240gm) (rinsed)

Ingredients for Dressing

2 Tbsp Olive Oil

Juice of ½ a Lemon

5 Stalks of Coriander (chopped)
1 clove of garlic (diced)

¼ tsp Cumin

¼ tsp Salt

Black pepper (to finish)

Method

1. Add all the salad ingredients into a big salad bowl.

2. Put all the ingredients for the dressing in a jar, cover and shake it. Pour the dressing over the salad ingredients and toss evenly.