Another day at the races! I decided to make one of my favorite easy lunch recipes: chickpea salad. It's great on sandwiches, a salad, or on crackers. It's very simple to make from ingredients that you probably have around your vegan pantry. I like to use celery, some sweet Mayan onion, fresh parsley, and orange peppers in mine. Make sure you chop them somewhat fine because you really don't want big chunks of them in your chickpea salad.
Now you want to smash your chickpeas. I usually used canned organic ones from Giant Eagle. I drain and rinse them then use a fork to mash. You want them to be really really mashed!
Thank you hubby for mashing my chickpeas!
So the old stand by in our fridge is some Vegenaise. Vegenaise is great because it takes place of mayo without the added eggs. I use it in potato and macaroni salads and to make vegan ranch dressing (which I could drink a gallon of!) I add a big blob of this to the combined chickpeas and veggies and give it a stir. I also add pickle relish to kind of give it that sweet taste. I wouldn't recommend making this chickpea salad without because it WILL taste like something is missing. Something else I usually like to use in my salad is capers, which I was out of :-(
I like to eat my chickpea salad on toast, but my darling husband likes to eat his with either crackers or on a big salad. Even my oldest loves this recipe!
<----- Your finished product!
My yummy lunch ----->
Oh yeah, and while I had all that extra time from making a super, terrific, easy lunch, I decided to make some chocolate chip Macadamia nut cookies!
