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Chickpea Salad

Smashed Chickpea Salad

Dinner, Lunch, Salad, Sides, vegan, VegetarianTove Balle-PedersenComment
Smashed Chickpea Salad

Smashed Chickpea Salad

I love chickpeas, they are very filling and full of protein (9g/100g*) and dietary fiber (8g/100g*). Like lentils, chickpeas is easily flavored while cooking and by what ever you dress it with. 

I really like the tanginess and the specks of salty olives and chili peppers. Overall this chickpea salad is a simple, quick weekday side. I served it with beer can chicken, an all-time favorite in my house.

This recipe is adapted from the Smitten Kitchen cookbook.

Serves 3.

Ingredients:

  • 450 g cooked, cooled chickpeas

  • 100 g green olives, pitted and thinly sliced

  • 3 small pickled chilies, sliced

  • 1 handful Italian parsley, chopped

  • ½ teaspoon freeze dried buckthorn

  • 35 ml lemon juice, freshly squeezed

  • 1 garlic clove, minced

  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

  • 1 pinch cayenne pepper

Directions:

Soak and cook the chickpeas according to instruction on the package, or like Chickpea and Carrot Salad a la Thomas Keller. If you are in a hurry use 2 cans of chickpeas, drain and rinse them. 

Mix all but the olive oil and smash the salad with a potato masher, until you have a coarse mixture, with chunky pieces. Dress the salad with the Olive oil, and season it with salt, pepper and lemon juice.

Enjoy!

* In the boiled chickpeas.