Thursday, July 06, 2006

Easy Chickpea Salad

This is the easiest (peasiest) salad.
You'll need:
1 can chick peas
1/2 small red onion
half a punnet of cherry (or grape) tomatoes
handful of flat parsley
white wine vinegar
olive oil
salt & pepper

Chop the onion nice and fine. Halve the cherry toms. Chop the parsley (not too fine - think rustic). Chuck it all in a bowl with the drained (and rinsed) chick peas. Add a big sloosh of vinegar, a glug glug of olive oil and add salt and pepper to taste. That's it!

This needs about an hour for the flavours to really mingle and tastes delish the next day as well. If you don't have any chick peas, any canned beans (especially four bean mix) are just as good. I sometimes add a half teaspoon of tahini as well - gives it a nice middle eastern touch.

This is perfect served with roasted mediterranean veg and couscous or as a side dish for any informal 'help yourself' style meal. Enjoy!

3 comments:

Cath said...

Having tried this at Del's place before I can add that it's very tasty!

Del Hansen said...

Thanks Kristy - It's good to have a couple of easy vego options up your sleeve as there is usually at least one vegetarian in every gathering these days. And they are such lovely people - aren't they Cathy?

Cath said...

Yes, us vegetarians are slowly infiltrating the rest of the world...it's going to be a vegetarian revolution! ;-)