A delicious, quick and easy, high-protein vegetarian salad that can be eaten for lunch or dinner or as a side to a meat dish. This curried chickpea salad is mildly spiced but can be adjusted to make it even spicier!
This Curried Chickpea Salad is a vegetarian take on my Curried Chicken Salad (which I posted in 2013!) which is amazing, delicious, sensational and all those other adjectives that describe food you can’t stop eating. This chickpea salad is no different. It has the same crunch and spice and flavour.
Although I listed raisins as an optional for this salad, the subtext of that should be – Optional but Highly recommended, or, optional but shouldn’t be optional.
The only real reason I listed it as optional is because my photos don’t show actual raisins. I wanted to try this recipe without the added sugar of the raisins but in hindsight, the raisins add the contrast to the spice of the curry powder and red onion.
So basically, go ahead and add the raisins.
If you enjoy chickpea salads, you may enjoy these salads too:
Easy Curried Chickpea Salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Total Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 2–3 servings 1x
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A delicious, quick and easy, high-protein vegetarian salad that can be eaten for lunch or dinner or as a side to a meat dish. This curried chickpea salad is mildly spiced but can be adjusted to make it even spicier!
Ingredients
For the salad
- 1 can chickpeas (1 ½ cups cooked), drained and rinsed
- 1/2 cup celery, finely chopped
- ¼ cup red onion, finely diced
- 2 spring onions, chopped
- 2 tablespoons coriander, chopped
- Optional: ¼ cup raisins
For the Curry Dressing
- ¼ cup mayonnaise (alternatively – use hummus thinned out with a little water)
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- ¼ teaspoon chili powder (or cayenne pepper)
- Pinch of black pepper
- 1 clove garlic, grated
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Take half the chickpeas and mash them using a fork – this adds wonderful texture to the salad.
- Prepare the salad by combining the whole and mashed chickpeas, celery, red onion and coriander together in a large bowl.
- For the dressing, add all the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth and combined. Add salt to taste.
- Mix the salad and dressing together and garnish with extra coriander.
- Eat the salad as is or use it as a sandwich, wrap or pita filling.
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