When you find a salad THIS GOOD, you're life is forever altered in the best way possible.
This quinoa salad has ALL the goods: quinoa, chickpeas, pistachios, feta and a bunch of fresh veggies and herbs.
🥡Make it a Meal Prep
Place this quinoa salad in meal prep containers with chicken, like this cast iron chicken breast recipe or a piece of baked salmon.
How to make this chickpea salad
Add cooked quinoa, chickpeas, cucumber, bell pepper, feta, pistachios, mint, and parsley to a large bowl. Whisk together dressing ingredients.
Pour dressing over top and mix to coat all salad ingredients and enjoy!
🙅♀️Where gluten could sneak in
I mean you'd have to try hard to get gluten in here BUT if you cook the quinoa in chicken broth (which I love to do), make sure the chicken broth is gluten-free because not all chicken broth IS gluten-free my friend.
~April
📖 Recipe
Chickpea Quinoa Salad with Fresh Herbs
Ingredients
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa Need 3 cups cooked
- 1 can chickpeas or garbanzo beans drained, rinsed. About 2 cups
- 1 medium orange bell pepper diced
- 1 large English cucumber diced
- ½ cup feta cheese crumbled
- ½ cup pistachios roughly chopped
- 1 cup curly parsley finely chopped
- ½ cup fresh mint finely chopped
Dressing ingredients
- ⅓ cup Olive oil
- ¼ cup White wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoon Liquid honey
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
Instructions
- Cook quinoa according to package instructions. Set aside to cool.
- Whisk together salad dressing ingredients. Add 2 big pinches of Kosher salt and some fresh ground pepper.
- Add cooled quinoa, chickpeas, cucumber, bell pepper, feta, pistachios, mint, and parsley to a large bowl.
- Pour dressing over top and mix to coat all salad ingredients and enjoy!
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