Chickpea Avocado Salad

A healthy chickpea avocado salad loaded with veggies, herbs and cheese is a great option when you wish to keep your dinner simple yet healthy and filling. This salad is one of my favorite chilled salads. The salad is also a perfect ‘go-to ‘ dish for a get together or picnic or any such occasions.

Ingredients:

1. Chickpea – 3/4 cup
2. avocado – 1 small
3. cucumber – 1
4. Onion – 1
5. tomato – 1
6. Feta cheese -1-2 tablespoon

For salad dressing:

1. Olive oil – 3 tablespoon
2. Lime juice – 3 tablespoon
3. vinegar – 1 tablespoon
4. salt – 1/2 teaspoon
5. crushed peppercorns – 1/4 teaspoon
6. Parsley leaves – 1-2 teaspoon

Method:

• Soak chickpeas overnight (or around 4-5 hrs) . Drain and cook in a pressure cooker for 4-5 whistles on medium flame. Let it cool. Drain off the excess water and keep it ready.
• Finely dice cucumber , tomato, avocado. Finely slice onion. In a bowl, mix all these.
• Add cooked chickpeas and diced/crumbled feta cheese to the above bowl.
• Prepare salad dressing in a separate bowl by combining all the ingredients mentioned under “for salad dressing“.
• Just before serving, toss chickpea-avocado mixture in salad dressing and serve!!

Have a look at other salad recipes –

• Watermelon feta salad
• Russian Salad
• Creamy pasta salad
• Grilled chicken salad
• Crunchy Peanut Salad
• Sweet Corn Salad