No lettuce salads should honestly be your go-to when meal prepping for the week.
They keep for days and get even BETTER tasting as they sit.
Not only that: summertime is THE season to have salads without lettuce.
It's hot out; you're traveling. You don't want to have to worry about lettuce in salads wilting away in the heat.
And mango chickpea salad without lettuce fits the bill.
Why this Mango Chickpea Rice Salad works
This meal-prep friendly salad is so ON-POINT for your gluten-free, nutritious way of eating💃
It's like we're jamming all the goodness with carbs, protein and veggies into one salad.
AND, it holds up in the fridge for days💃
What you'll need to make the mango chickpea salad:
- Cooked rice
- Protein-packed chickpeas
- Chunks of mango (frozen works)
- Feta cheese
- Dried currants (or dried cranberries)
- Fresh parsley
- A few simple ingredients for an olive-oil based dressing
Top Tip: Use Frozen Mango🥭
When you use frozen mango, you don't have to fuss around with like mangoes that LOOK ripe but aren't.
Or are full of bruises🤦♀️
And with that big bag of frozen mango chunks you can make this Yummy Mango Salsa too!
🥡Make it a Meal Prep
Add this mango chickpea salad into meal prep containers with some Skillet-Seared Chicken Breast and you are off to the races my friend.
Now go be amazing🌟
~April
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📖 Recipe
Mango Chickpea Rice Salad
Ingredients
- 3 cups cooked basmati rice
- 1 can chickpeas, drained 540ml
- ¾ cup feta cheese crumbled
- ⅓ cup dried currants
- ½ cup flat leaf parsley chopped
Dressing
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 lemon juiced
- 2 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove grated
- Kosher salt and fresh pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add all ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk dressing ingredients together.
- Toss salad ingredients together with dressing. Place in meal prep containers.
- Good for 3-4 days in the fridge.
Notes
- Bookmark this salad for when you have leftover rice - it's a great way to use up extra basmati rice
- Save yourself the fretting over under-ripe/too ripe mangoes - use frozen mango chunks instead! You can use it in this popular recipe for Mango Salsa with Frozen Mango too🥭
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