Chickpea Salad with Quinoa Lemon and Ginger

Chickpea Salad with Quinoa Lemon and Ginger. A super healthy salad with bright fresh flavours that can be served warm as a side dish or cold as a vegetarian lunch.

Originally published May 2016.

Spouse has been playing around with using quinoa in a hot or cold salad again. This one turned out very bright and flavourful with the added bonus of healthy Chickpeas too.

The last time she contributed a recipe like this to the blog, it turned out to be our most popular healthy-eating recipe ever.

That recipe, for Mediterranean Quinoa Salad, went on to be published in one of my cookbooks and has been an incredible hit on Pinterest with almost 150,000 reins to date. I guess it looked pretty tempting to folks, especially for a healthy recipe.

The beautiful thing about these sorts of salads made from cooked who grains or seeds, as Quinoa technically is, is that they are equally delicious served hot or cold.

The simple vinaigrette type dressing is the key to allowing this recipe to go from a tasty side dish with grilled chicken or fish, to tomorrow's packed lunch with no need to reheat it.

If quinoa is not your thing, or it's getting a bit expensive, try the recipe with small pasta shapes, Israeli couscous, or even cooked grains like barley or bulgar.

This chickpea salad also keeps nicely in the fridge for 2-3 days as long as you use very fresh vegetables.

You might also like our recipe for Lime Salsa Quinoa Salad.

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Lemon Ginger Quinoa Salad

Yield: 4 -6 servings

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Lemon Ginger Quinoa Chickpea Salad - a super healthy salad with bright fresh flavours that can be served warm as a side dish or cold as a vegetarian lunch.

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Ingredients

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• 1 cup uncooked quinoa
• 1 ½ cups water
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 chopped red pepper
• 3 tbs green onion
• 2 cups cooked chickpeas, rinsed and drained, or canned

For the Dressing

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• ¼ c olive oil
• Juice and zest of 1 lemon
• 2 tbs honey
• 2 tbs grated fresh ginger
• Salt & pepper to season

Instructions

1. Bring the quinoa salt and water to a very gentle simmer.
2. Cover and simmer slowly for 15 to 20 minutes until the grains are cooked but still a little firm to the bite.
3. Remove from heat and drain well in a sieve.
4. Transfer to a bowl and toss in the red pepper green onion and chickpeas.
5. Pour on the dressing and toss together well before serving.

To prepare the dressing

1. Simple whisk all of the ingredients together until well incorporated.
2. You can also shake the dressing together in a clean mason jar if you prefer.
3. Store in an airtight contoaner in the fridge if nit serving immediately.

Notes

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

Nutrition Information

Yield

4

Serving Size

Amount Per Serving Calories 455Total Fat 18gSaturated Fat 2gUnsaturated Fat 0gSodium 306mgCarbohydrates 61gFiber 10gSugar 13gProtein 13g

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