I love salads but sometimes when its cold I make this warm chickpea salad as its perfect eaten hot or cold. With middle Eastern flavours it goes really well with a meze of pitta bread, hummus, Baba Ganoush to make the perfect lunch.
Yield: Serves 2
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Warm Chickpea and Pickled Walnut Salad
A warm spiced chickpea salad with lovely Moroccan flavours.
prep time: 10 minscook time: 5 minstotal time: 15 mins
Ingredients:
- 240 g Precooked chick Peas
- 1/2 green capsicum finely diced
- 1/2 red capsicum finely diced
- 1 small red onion finely diced
- 1 pickled walnut finely diced
- 1 tablespoon brine from the pickled walnuts
- 4 sprigs fresh coriander finely chopped.
- 1 tablespoon Olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Seeds from 1 pomegranate
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon sumac
- 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- 1 red chilli finely diced
Instructions
- In a pan add the olive oil and saute the onions until translucent. To the onions add the the chick peas, peppers and warm through.
- Transfer the chickpea mixture to a bowl and add two thirds of the pomegranate and pickled walnuts and the chopped coriander.
- In a jar add the lemon juice, walnut brine,sumac, diced chilli, salt, honey, back pepper and mix thoroughly
- Pour the dressing over the salad and toss well.
- Transfer the salad to serving bowl and garnish with remaining pomegranate and chopped coriander.
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