11 Ideas for making chickpea salad

Light but nutritious salads

We love chickpea salads because they combine the lightness of salads with a food as nutritious and healthy as legumes, because they are not as heavy as stews, and because they allow infinite preparations as you will see below.

Easy chickpea salad

This one, for example, is as easy as it is delicious. On a bed of tender shoots, put some chickpeas sautéed with tomato, some slices of grilled red onion, and accompany with nuts.

Chickpea salad with avocado and prawns

It is as simple as mixing cooked chickpeas with peeled prawns, avocado, red pepper, cucumber, onion … (or the vegetables that you like best or have on hand in your pantry). To give it the most colorful touch, you can add the avocado in the form of balls as we have done here with the help of a scoop like the one used to empty melons or watermelons.

Vegetable hash with chickpeas

To make this salad for four, you only need a pot of chickpeas, a couple of carrots, a red and a green bell pepper, a purple onion, and a handful of green leaves (spinach sprouts or arugula, for example). Wash it and cut it all into small cubes, mix it and season it with a little oil, vinegar, salt and the spices that you like the most. It is one of the recipes that you can make with a pot of chickpeas.

Chickpea and tuna salad

You take tomato, cucumber, pepper, onion … You wash them and cut them into small cubes. Add some cooked chickpeas. You mix everything well with a little oil, vinegar and old mustard. And finally you add tuna to the natural or canned. It's a super easy chickpea salad that would serve you as a takeout to work, for example.

Pita bread with chickpea salad

You can also innovate and serve the salad in different ways as we have done in this one based on chickpeas, fresh cheese and a vegetable hash, and that we have served it on pita bread to give it a special touch. See recipe step by step.

Red cabbage timbale with chickpeas and mushrooms

Blanch red cabbage in salt water for 4 min, cool with cold water and drain. Meanwhile, grill slices of eggplant, onion and tomato on one side. Saute some mushrooms, for another. And make very thin slices of zucchini with the help of a kitchen mandolin. To mount it, you can use a plating ring. Layer the roasted vegetables and mushrooms in between. Then cooked chickpeas. And decorate with the slices of zucchini and sprouts.

Chickpea salad with cod

Chickpeas are also super rich with desalted cod crumbs. Aside from these two main ingredients, our recipe includes grated tomato, diced spring onion, pickled pickle slices, and chopped boiled egg and black olives. You just have to mix everything and dress it to your liking.

Chickpea salad with tender sprouts and fresh cheese

It has no mystery. I have taken a bag of assorted green sprouts (the kind that they sell washed and ready to use –which is one of the processed foods that are considered healthy or tolerable if you follow the postulates of # realfood–) and I have mixed them with cooked chickpeas , Burgos type fresh cheese and some chopped walnuts. And for dressing, a light honey and mustard vinaigrette.

Chickpeas with tuna and tomatoes

Here's another super easy chickpea and tuna salad. Drain the chickpeas and a couple of cans of natural tuna, and mix them with 20g of washed cherry tomatoes, two julienned chives and chopped chives. Season to taste and voila. It is one of the recipes to lose weight … easy and appetizing! because although it is very nutritious, it is also very light.

Chickpea salad with feta cheese and radishes

As a base, you put some rocket leaves. On top, cooked and drained chickpeas. You add grated raw tomato, a few cubes of feta cheese, a few slices of radishes and black olives. And you season it with a thread of oil, a little vinegar and a teaspoon of old mustard, of which it has seeds. Mustard is one of the spices with a fat burning effect.

Vegetable salad with chickpeas and rice

You only have to cook 100 g of long grain rice and, once cooked and drained, mix it with a pot of cooked and drained chickpeas, and the vegetables you like the most (zucchini, carrots, aubergines, peppers …) cut into sticks and sautéed with a thread of oil. That easy and that good. If you want a protein bonus, it goes very well with grilled turkey or chicken breast.

Chickpeas, like the rest of legumes, are considered a health treasure because they satisfy, have a lot of fiber, reduce cholesterol … And the fact is that legumes, in addition to many proteins, provide slow-absorbing carbohydrates, which provide energy for hours and prevent blood glucose spikes.

For this reason, consuming them frequently helps prevent obesity and diabetes, apart from containing antioxidant compounds that prevent other diseases. And it is recommended to eat them at least three times a week. Well, one of the easiest and healthiest ways to do it is in salads, which are not as heavy as stews, they fit at any time of the year and give a lot of play.

X-ray of the perfect chickpea salad

Base: chickpeas.
Body of the salad: lettuces, young shoots, mushrooms, vegetables and fruits …
A plus of proteins: Egg, cheese, tuna, cod, chicken …
Complements: Sprouts, nuts, seeds …
Dressing: Spices, olive oil, vinegar, lemon, mustard …

If you liked our recipes but still want more ideas, here are more chickpea salad recipes.