Late summertime is the flavor of chance to bask the fruits — or vegetables too herbs — of our gardening labours alongside fresh too colourful salads. I brand my summertime chickpea salad quite oftentimes at this fourth dimension of twelvemonth for the lead chances to throw inwards enough of fresh peppers too herbs from my garden. Zesty too delicious, it's ever a pop selection alongside my hubby too friends on the patio tabular array no thing how oftentimes I pose it together.
 Summer Chickpea Salad |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Published on September 4, 2011
A zesty too refreshing Mediterranean-style chickpea salad dressed alongside fresh herbs — a neat summertime tiffin or low-cal dinner
Salad:
- 1/2 loving cup dried chickpeas (1 1/2 cups cooked or one fourteen oz can)
- 1/2 pint grape tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 xanthous or orangish bell pepper, seeded too chopped
- 1 or two jalapeños, seeded too chopped
- large handful fresh basil leaves, shredded
- small handful fresh mint leaves, finely chopped
- 4 oz (115 g) Feta cheese, crumbled
- 1/2 loving cup Kalamata olives, pitted too sliced
Dressing:
- juice of one lemon (3 tablespoons)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon bounding main salt, or to taste
- fresh terra firma dark pepper to taste
Instructions:
Generation Engelmundus Rinse the chickpeas too soak overnight covered inwards several inches of mutual frigidity H2O alongside a niggling yogurt whey or lemon juice added. Drain too add together to a medium saucepan. Cover alongside fresh mutual frigidity H2O or vegetable stock too pick out to a boil. Immediately trim the estrus to low, cover, too permit simmer for one to one 1/2 hours or until the beans are soft. Drain too gear upwards aside to cool for twenty or xxx minutes. Generation Engelmundus Place the chickpeas, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, Feta cheese too olives inwards a large salad bowl. Whisk together the dressing, pour over the salad, too gently toss. Generation Engelmundus Serve cooled or at room temperature.
Makes 4 servings |
Other summertime salad ideas you lot may enjoy:
Warm Baby Potato too Pea Salad Chickpea Salad alongside Tamarind Dressing Creamy Potato too Green Bean Salad Chickpea too Tomato Salad alongside Chat Masala Sumber http://foodandspice.blogspot.com/
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