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Greek Chickpea Salad with an authentic greek salad dressing is a favourite salad to serve as a main OR as a side!
A twist on a traditional Greek Salad! Loaded up with chickpeas, green peppers (or capsicum), juicy grape tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and red onion, you will love this chickpea salad recipe. Topped with a creamy block of feta cheese, Greek Chickpea Salad is so versatile, healthy and filling, it can be served on its own OR as a side with any meat/fish!
What ingredients go into a Greek salad?
Finally, the most easiest salad to make requiring minimal ingredients and prep work. There are many Greek salads out on the world wide web that look absolutely delicious. Typical ingredients include:
- Sliced cucumbers
- Tomatoes
- Kalamata olives
- Red onion
- Green peppers (or capsicum — optional ingredient depending taste preference).
- Feta cheese (crumble before serving, or serve the traditional way, as pictured).
(Check out our Avocado Greek Salad here!) While regular tomatoes are normally used, we added grape tomatoes instead because there’s nothing like the burst of sweet, ripe grape tomatoes in every mouthful! Similarly, you could also use cherry tomatoes if that’s what you have!
Simple Chickpea Salad Recipe
Chickpeas are so versatile they can go in absolutely anything! Sometimes known as garbanzo beans, chickpeas are extremely popular in the Mediterranean diet and fit perfectly in a salad such as this. Being a good source of fibre, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals makes this salad filling and great to serve as a main meal — no cooking being a bonus.
Adding chickpeas to a usual Greek salad is a tradition I know you will fall in love with even more!
Traditional Greek Salad Dressing
Greek dressing is so simple to make, with only four main ingredients:
- Olive oil
- Red wine vinegar (or Lemon juice)
- Dried oregano
- Garlic
From here, you can season with salt to suit your tastes, or follow our measurements in the recipe below!
Chickpea Salad with Feta
Top our Greek Chickpea salad with a whole block of creamy Feta cheese, allowing your guests to break off the amount of cheese they want with their salad, or crumble before serving and mix it through!
Types of Feta Cheese
We love Danish feta for its creamier, smooth texture but you can use any feta cheese you have on hand. Traditionally, Greek Feta is dry and crumbly and you probably prefer that texture to the Danish. There are also marinated options, flavoured or crumbled feta found in your local supermarkets. This salad is extremely forgiving, so you can go with any you wish. My only tip is to take note of the dressing ingredients and try to stick to similar flavours so that the cheese you choose compliments the flavours in the dressing.
Looking for more Mediterranean or Greek dishes? Try these!
Greek Lamb Chops
Greek Chicken + Potatoes (One Pan)
Lemon Herb Mediterranean Pasta Salad
Watch us make Greek Chickpea Salad right here on VIDEO!
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Chickpea Greek Salad
Ingredients
For The Dressing:
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon garlic minced, or 1 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano plus extra to serve
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
For The Salad:
- 1 large cucumber halved lengthways and sliced
- 10 ounces grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 green pepper deseeded and sliced
- ½ red onion sliced thinly
- 14 ounce chickpeas canned, washed and drained
- 10 ounces pitted Kalamata olives
- 3.5 oz feta cheese good quality creamy
Instructions
- Whisk together dressing ingredients in a jug or jar.
- Mix together all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with half of the dressing. Season with extra salt ONLY IF NEEDED (depends how salty your feta cheese is).
- Top with brick of feta cheese and drizzle over remaining dressing .
- Serve with chicken, fish, lamb, beef, the options are endless!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
What a refreshing salad and so easy to pull together. Beautiful colors and lots of crunch. Only change I made was to soak the red onion in ice water for a bit to take the edge off. Would also be perfect to prep on Sundays for weekday lunches. May also try adding some grilled chicken for a light weeknight meal. Thank you for the inspiration!
A delicious, easy recipe. I learnt quite a lot doing this.
Hey, Karina
Your recipes have helped change the way we cook and eat. Thank you. We are old and have underlying health problems. We rarely go out: My question is, would other cheeses work with this salad, until we can order some? Our garden is full and I making all your chickpea salads in a row.
Outstanding!! This recipe is simple without sacrificing flavour. I have made it twice in the hopes there would be leftovers for the next days lunch. No dice. It’s that good!!
I love the addition of chick peas! How about if you toast them so they are crunchy and sprinkle on top after serving?
Have a Merry Christmas!
I love a good Greek salad! And often pop chick peas in as well….soooo good!!
Absolutely delicious. I could eat this salad every day as a side salad or as a main course. I am a bachelor at 79 and look
for easy recipes that don’t take up too much time in the kitchen. Your recipes are always outstanding and very tasty. I
look forward to your recipe emails always on my laptop. Please keep publishing.
Thanks for making my kitchen a pleasant experience.
Bobby
AW!! Thank you so much I really appreciate it! That means a lot to me! I hope you are finding more and more recipes to try. Thanks for following along and sharing with me! XO