Meatless Monday Creamy Garbanzo Edible Bean (Chickpea) Salad

Summer =Salads! Period. That's for me. I love to swallow salads throughout the twelvemonth but peculiarly during summertime every bit I don't actually experience similar eating anything besides hot. I similar something cool. Also during summertime nosotros are outdoors nearly of the time, peculiarly during the weekends. We don't similar to swallow out much together with thence pack a picnic for our outings! This of course of pedagogy includes a salad. And together with then I am making a myriad of salads during the summer! Summer together with going out also agency going to barbecues.. This weekend nosotros had a barbecue at a honey friend's beech house. The kids had a blast! I made a creamy chickpea salad for the occasion together with saved a bowl for me for today's lunch. This is about other 1 of my crowd-pleasers!I came across this recipe a twelvemonth agone together with every bit often, I convey tweaked it a little.You tin discovery the master copy recipe here. Do endeavor it, you lot volition sure similar it! ( unless you lot don't similar chickpeas at all to laid out alongside ;). This is how I made it:

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Chick peas( garbanzo beans): 1 15oz. can, rinsed together with drained thoroughly.
Cucumber: 1 small, diced.
Tomato: 1 medium, deseeded together with diced.
Onion: 1 medium, chopped fine( I used xanthous onion, whatsoever onion tin live used).
Green bell pepper:1 medium, deseeded together with diced.
Apricots: ii small, deseeded together with diced.
Black olives: 1/4 cup, sliced
Cranberries: 1 tbsp
Parsley: 1/8th cup, chopped fine.
Feta cheese: ii oz, crumbled.

For the marinade:
Greek yogurt: 1/4 cup
Lemon juice: 1 tbsp
Apple cider vinegar: 1 tbsp
Honey:1 tsp
Sea salt: every bit per taste
Black pepper: 1/2 tsp, freshly ground.

Method:

Add all the ingredients( except those listed nether "for the marinade") into a salad bowl.

Take all the ingredients listed nether "for the marinade" inwards a pocket-size drinking glass jolt together with milk shiver well.

Add the marinade to the salad bowl together with mix well.

Garnish alongside about parsley sprigs, olives together with cranberries.

Keep it chilled until gain to serve!

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Salads similar this are bully for a political party or gathering every bit they tin live made ahead of time( similar the nighttime before).Just mix all the ingredients of the salad together with laid the marinade, but run on them separately.
On the hateful solar daytime of the party, simply earlier the guests arrive, you lot tin mix the marinade alongside the salad together with it is gain to live served.

Tip for good for you lot living:

Yogurt has been traditionally used every bit a salad dressing inwards India. Yogurt is a bully probiotic together with hence helps inwards maintaining proficient GI health. Probiotics are nutrient groups that promote the increment of proficient bacteria inwards the gut. These proficient bacteria non exclusively assist digestion together with thereby forestall digestive issues similar bloating together with constipation, they also assist promote proficient immunity inwards the body. Greek yogurt is higher inwards poly peptide content than regular yogurt.Hence, a pocket-size loving cup of yogurt daily volition contribute inwards a big way to meliorate health.

References:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0905c.shtml
http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/6-healing-benefits-of-probiotics
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/features/what-are-probiotics

Food for thought:

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