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Chickpea Tomato Salad with a lemon herb dressing is the perfect side salad to accompany your barbecue this Summer!
Full of fresh, bright ingredients, our Chickpea Tomato Salad is healthy, filling and super addictive. Whether you’re enjoying on its own or alongside some grilled meat, you will love this salad!
CHICKPEA TOMATO SALAD
As vibrant as our Avocado Feta Cucumber Salad, and as fresh as our Pomegranate Cobb Salad, this Chickpea Tomato Salad is right up there as one of our absolute favourites!
Fresh and filling, who doesn’t love a versatile salad? This chickpea tomato salad goes down a treat at any time of the day – lunch or dinner – as a cheeky snack, a vegetarian main or as a side with your main.
WHAT YOU NEED
Chickpeas – you can use canned for a quick salad, or use fresh beans soaked overnight and boiled the day of preparation.
Grape tomatoes – cherry tomatoes or diced Roma tomatoes are fine too.
Red onion – preferred, however, change it up and use green onions, chives, white onions, or whatever you have on hand.
Parsley – curly or flat-leaf.
That’s it!
CHICKPEA TOMATO SALAD DRESSING
Making this recipe over the years, I’ve found the best dressing that compliments the chickpea/tomato combination is a lemon herb dressing. Olive oil, lemon juice, dried oregano, salt, pepper and an optional pinch of cayenne. It doesn’t get any easier.
You can really make it your own and add any other herbs you like, for example dried basil, dried parsley, Italian dried herbs, thyme, rosemary, dill, etc.
WHAT TO SERVE WITH CHICKPEA TOMATO SALAD
Share our Chickpea Tomato Salad between two people and enjoy it for lunch! Simply serve it on its own or with a piece of Artisan Bread to mop up the delicious, garlicky dressing.
Alternatively, serve your salad as a side with Lemon Roast Chicken, Greek Lamb Chops or our Greek Chicken with Potatoes and Roast Pork with Crackle.
OPTIONAL ADD INS
The beauty of this Chickpea Tomato Salad is that the flavours go with anything! You can add anything else you have in the pantry or fridge to make it your own. Corn, diced red peppers or capsicum, olives, cucumber, anything!
You can even throw some rotisserie chicken or canned tuna in there for added protein. Whichever way you go, you won’t be disappointed!
MORE CHICKPEA RECIPES
Greek Chickpea Salad
Avocado Chickpea Tuna Salad Recipe
Balsamic Chickpea Avocado Feta Salad
Lamb and Chickpea Salad
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Chickpea Tomato Salad
Ingredients
SALAD
- 28 ounces chickpeas canned, garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
- 7 ounces grape tomatoes quartered, or cherry, Roma, vine-ripened tomatoes
- 1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped, fresh and crisp leaves if possible
- 1/4 cup red onion finely chopped
DRESSING
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice from 1-2 lemons
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 pinch dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cracked pepper
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper optional
Instructions
- Grab a large salad bowl and add in chickpeas, tomatoes, parsley and red onion.
- For the dressing, combine together olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and herbs. Season with salt and pepper, adjust to your taste. Pour the dressing over the chickpea mixture; toss to evenly coat.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Just made this for the 15 th time! Don’t like it at all 🙂
Hi Karina
I loooove your recipes..so easy but absolutely delicious. We loved this salad…quick to put together!!Family fav now!!
Made this last weekend…making it again for friends. So good
Can this work with dried parsley? I have everything except fresh.
Making this tonight! My only tweaks will be related to the onion I currently have on hand, and I love, love, love lemon zest, so I’ll be incorporating that into the dressing. So excited to have this and pork loin with your chimichurri recipe.