Chickpea salad

By: Gioconda Scott From: Gioconda Scott's Paradise Kitchen

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Prep time:
20 mins, plus overnight soaking
Cook time:
1 hrs 30 mins, - 2 hours
Serves:
4

For a tasty salad, try Gioconda Scott's Spanish-style recipe for chickpeas tossed with fresh herbs, cucumber and garlic

Ingredients

  • 500g Chickpeas, soaked overnight
  • black pepper
  • 2 cloves Garlic, 1 peeled and left whole, one peeled and finely chopped
  • Half a red Onions, finely chopped
  • 1 Cucumber, finely diced
  • 1 green chilli, finely chopped
  • 2-3 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 6 tbsp Parsley, finely chopped
  • 6 tbsp Mint, finely chopped
  • 6 tbsp Coriander, finely chopped
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Method

1. Drain the soaked chickpeas. Place the chick peas and the whole garlic clove in a large saucepan.

2. Cover generously with water and bring to the boil. Cook briskly uncovered for 1 and a half hours to 2 hours until the chick peas are tender. Season with salt towards the end of the cooking period. Drain the cooked chick peas.

3. Toss the cooked chick peas with the remaining garlic, onion, cucumber, chilli, wine vinegar, parsley, mint and coriander.

4. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Serve.

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Latest Comment

Very delicious - we had this for supper tonight with some other salads. I used a can of organic chick peas for speed, and cider vinegar plus some lime juice. Will fix this again.

SueK14562 SueK14562 Posted 22 May 2009 9:01 PM