The Easiest Chopped Greek Chickpea Salad

It’s official: I’m on a Greek and Mediterranean meals kick. I can’t cease dreaming about gyros, greek salads and tzatziki sauce on EVERYTHING. Due to this fact, I made a decision to whip up this tremendous easy wholesome chickpea salad for spring. It’s stuffed with recent veggies, tomatoes, spices, feta, olives and protein-packed chickpeas!

The very best half about this chopped Greek salad recipe is that there’s no cooking required; all you’ll do is chop the veggies and toss them with the sunshine lemon dressing. You may marinate it within the fridge for an hour or so, but it surely isn’t crucial.

Usually I wish to eat this salad for lunch over combined greens or spinach however you may as well get pleasure from it as is. It’s stuffed with plant-based protein from chickpeas, a terrific choice to pack for lunch, and even as a straightforward crowd-pleaser for a BBQ or potluck, so let’s do it up!

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What’s in a Greek salad?

I’ve liked Greek salads for so long as I can bear in mind as a result of they’re so recent, flavorful, and tremendous satisfying. Conventional Greek salads are crammed with lovely veggies like purple onion, tomatoes, cucumber, and bell pepper, together with kalamata olives, and blocks of feta cheese. They’re dressed merely with good high quality olive oil, oregano, salt, and a vinegar like purple wine vinegar. Not like many different salad recipes, Greek salads don’t have any leafy greens in them.

It’s widespread to maintain the feta and the veggies in bigger chunks, however in my tackle a Greek salad I’m chopping every thing up just a little extra finely (aka a chopped Greek salad!)

Substances in the perfect chopped Greek salad

This scrumptious Greek chickpea salad is full of a rainbow of veggies and lightweight, recent taste from a beautiful lemon dressing. Right here’s every thing you’ll must make it:

• Veggies: we’re packing this child stuffed with recent greens like purple, yellow & inexperienced bell pepper, purple onion, grape tomatoes, and cucumber.
• Chickpeas: gotta have that fantastic, plant-based protein from chickpeas!
• Combine-ins: like a real Greek salad we’re mixing in kalamata olives and a few crumbled feta cheese. YUM. Be at liberty so as to add a diced avocado, too, for added wholesome fat!
• For the dressing: you’ll want some olive oil, recent lemon juice, garlic, oregano, salt & pepper. Really easy and SO recent.

Extra scrumptious protein choices

This chopped Greek salad is tremendous simple to customise along with your favourite proteins! Right here’s what I can advocate:

Making this Greek chickpea salad for a celebration?

I like to recommend doubling every thing to feed the entire friends! You may even make the salad 1-2 days forward of time because the veggies will marinate superbly within the dressing.

Storing ideas

Retailer any leftover salad within the fridge for as much as 3-5 days. After a couple of days the cucumbers will break down a bit, so I like to recommend having fun with it inside 3 days of creating the salad.

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Recipe by: Monique Volz // Bold Kitchen | Pictures by: Eat Love Eats