Wednesday 4 March 2015

Herby Salad with Chickpeas and Olives

Salad with Chickpeas and Olives
This simple salad is basically a variation on tabbouleh without the bulgar wheat! It works well as a side dish to accompany a carb-heavy main course, such as pizza or pasta, or as a lunch-box salad served with pitta bread.

  • 2 little gem or 1 cos/romaine lettuce, leaves separated 
  • 2-3 ripe tomatoes, de-seeded and diced
  • 8cm/3" chunk of cucumber, de-seeded and diced
  • 1 green bell pepper, de-seeded and diced
  • 50g/2oz pitted olives, sliced
  • ½ can chickpeas/garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1 tbsp each of fresh chopped mint and parsley 
Dressing
  • juice of ½ lemon
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 small clove of garlic, crushed (optional)
  • Salt and pepper to taste

 NCR
Put all of the salad ingredients, apart from the lettuce, into a bowl.
Mix the dressing ingredients together, drizzle over the salad and mix gently.
Allow the flavours to marinate for around half an hour before serving on a bed of lettuce leaves.

I'm adding this recipe to this month's No Crouton's Required Challenge, created and co-hosted by Lisa's Kitchen and Jacqueline at Tinned Tomatoes.

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5 comments:

  1. I really have to try this soon; I love the idea of letting the dressing marinate first before adding the lettuce. :) And I lovelovelove garbanzo beans in my salads!

    Vegetarian Courtesy

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  2. Healthy yummy salad.

    thelady8home.com

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  3. Oh, that is one fine salad. Chickpeas always get my attention. Thanks for sharing with NCR. The roundup will be up soon.

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