This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is the perfect accompaniment to any summer meal. While summer is almost gone, take summer with you in this salad!
This chickpea salad has tender nutty chickpeas, fresh juicy veggies, tangy salty olives, and freshness, and brightness from the lemon juice.
Mediterranean Chickpea Salad would be great served with crackers as an appetizer, or with roasted lamb as a side salad.
Chickpea Salad – Key ingredients
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Chickpeas
You can cook dry beans for this recipe, just cook ½ cup of dry chickpeas until tender.
Marinated Olives
I used marinated kalamata and green olives for this recipe. You want to use good quality marinated olives, not the canned black and green olives because they don’t have a lot of flavor.
Olive oil
Use a good quality olive oil. It really adds good flavor to the salad.
Fresh herbs
Fresh herbs add freshness and more flavor to the salad. I added freshly torn basil and a fresh spring of thyme. If you don’t have fresh herbs you could also use dried thyme, it still tastes amazing!
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Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Salad
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
Description
This chickpea salad has tender nutty chickpeas, fresh juicy veggies, tangy salty olives, and freshness, and brightness from the lemon juice.
Mediterranean Chickpea Salad would be great served with crackers as an appetizer, or with roasted lamb as a side salad.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup cooked chickpeas
- 1/4 cup cucumber (diced)
- 1/4 cup red bell pepper (diced)
- 1 tomato (diced)
- 1/4 cup olives (chopped)
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 tsp salt and pepper
Optional Add-ins
- fresh basil
- spring of fresh thyme or 1/4tsp dried thyme
Instructions
- In a large bowl combine cooked chickpeas, cucumbers, red bell peppers, red onions, tomatoes, olives, minced garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, and salt and pepper to taste.
- You can add freshly torn basil leaves or fresh or dried thyme. Enjoy!
Notes
Can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 – 3 days for maximum freshness.
Keywords: chick peas, Meditterranean, salad, side dish, side salad
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