Mediterranean chickpea salad
Fresh, delicious and highly nutritious. This Mediterranean chickpea salad is a wonderful side dish and the chickpeas are a great addition if you are looking to include more protein into your daily intake.
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time15 minutes minutes
Total Time15 minutes minutes
CourseSalad, Side Dish
CuisineMediterranean
KeywordSalad
Servings 4
Calories 237kcal
Ingredients
- 1 tin organic chickpeas drained
- 1 red onion thinly sliced
- 3 medium tomatoes quartered
- 10 cherry tomatoes halved
- 20 black olives halved
- 1 cucumber peeled, halved, seeds removed and thinly sliced
- 10 basil leaves
- 3 garlic cloves crushed
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch black pepper
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
Instructions
- Add the drained chickpeas, sliced red onion, 3 quartered tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, black olives, cucumber, basil leaves and garlic cloves to a large bowl.
- Season with salt, pepper, dried oregano, dried basil, extra virgin olive oil and stir until well combined.
- Enjoy
Notes
This salad goes well with almost everything and is full of colour, flavour and highly nutritious.
I like to serve this Mediterranean salad with whole roasted chicken and crispy potatoes.
Also goes great with:
Fish and whole grain rice
Steak and sweet potato wedges
Duck breast and quinoa
Nutrition
Serving: 1 Serving | Calories: 237kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Sodium: 654mg | Potassium: 654mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 983IU | Vitamin C: 22mg | Calcium: 92mg | Iron: 3mg
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