Chickpea salad
This week, let’s take a minute to appreciate simple ideas that turn into something delicious. A few weeks ago, I found myself scrambling around the kitchen in search of something to make quickly to take for lunch and came up with a fresh chickpea salad. The greatest part about this recipe was a spur of the moment decision that worked out exactly as I had hoped it would – tasty, quick, and fresh.
I hurried to search through my pantry and found a large can of chickpeas and a red onion and some garlic, then made my way through my fridge where I found a red pepper, a carrot and a lemon. I then trimmed some parsley and chives from my windowsill herb garden and was on my way to making a new dish to take for lunch.
The chickpea salad is healthy and delicious – perfect for these warmer days when you want something that is going to satisfy you without making you feel like a zombie at work and it’s oh so simple to make!
To begin, open and rinse a can of chickpeas and then add them into a mixing bowl. Then, thinly slice ¼ of the red onion, ½ the red pepper and add it to the bowl. Next, mince a couple cloves of garlic, and add it into the bowl. Then, take out a cheese grater and grate one carrot and add it to the bowl – it works perfectly! Next, chop up fresh parsley and fresh chives and throw them into the mix. Then, squeeze the juice of ½ a lemon over the mixture, drizzle with olive oil, and sprinkle some coarse salt and fresh black pepper. Mix everything together and allow the flavours to work with each other for a few hours.
This is a great salad to eat on its own, as a side, or to bring to a summer BBQ. Enjoy!
Shopping list:
-chickpeas
-red onion
-red pepper
-garlic
-lemon
-parsley
-chives
-salt & pepper
-olive oil