Bean salads loaded alongside fresh crunchy vegetables are an incredibly slow agency to pack enough of protein, fiber, minerals together with vitamins into your diet, together with a zesty hot, sweetness together with sour tamarind together with lime dressing larn inwards a delicious alternative every bit well. Add to a greater extent than or less toasted kokosnoot together with cashews, together with you've got an extraordinarily attractive salad alongside bold Asian flavors. This is a existent winner.
This colorful together with salubrious salad was a terminal infinitesimal inspiration for
this month's edition of No Croutons Required hosted past times my practiced friend Jacqueline of
No Croutons Required. My ain birthday existence inwards March, the chickpea soup or salad subject from March of terminal yr happened to coincide nicely alongside a craving for chickpeas (which is itself a fairly regular occurrence). Last minute, only no less tasty together with wholesome for it.
 Chickpea Salad alongside Tamarind Dressing |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Published on April 20, 2011
A colorful together with salubrious summertime chickpea together with raw vegetable salad alongside bold zesty Asian flavors together with garnished alongside toasted kokosnoot together with cashews
Salad:
- 1/2 loving cup dried chickpeas (1 1/2 cups cooked or i fourteen oz can)
- 1/2 loving cup diced English linguistic communication cucumber
- 1 red, orangish or yellowish bell pepper, seeded together with diced
- 1 celery stalk, diced
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 1 avocado, peeled together with chopped
- 2 jalapeños, seeded together with minced
Garnsh:
- 1 tablespoon dried shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1/2 loving cup raw cashews, halved
- 2 greenish onions, greenish together with white parts, sliced
- small handful of fresh torn cilantro leaves
Dressing:
- 1 teaspoon tamari sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 1/4 teaspoon tamarind paste
- juice of i lime (2 tablespoons)
- 1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, minced or grated
- 1/2 teaspoon body of body of water salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dry reason cumin
- pinch of cayenne (optional)
Instructions:
Rinse the chickpeas nether mutual frigidness running H2O together with soak overnight inwards a bowl covered inwards several inches of mutual frigidness H2O alongside a petty yogurt whey or lemon juice added. Drain together with rinse the soaked chickpeas together with add together to a medium saucepan. Cover alongside fresh mutual frigidness H2O together with choose to a boil. Turn the oestrus downwards to low, cover, together with simmer for i to i 1/2 hours or until the chickpeas are soft together with buttery. Drain together with gear upward aside to cool. Toast the kokosnoot over medium-low oestrus inwards a dry out pan, tossing frequently, until golden brown. Remove together with gear upward aside. Return the pan to the oestrus together with toast the cashews until golden brown, together with gear upward aside. Meanwhile, whisk together the dressing ingredients along alongside the white parts of the greenish onions, together with allow stand. Combine the chickpeas together with salad vegetables inwards a mixing bowl. Pour the dressing over the salad together with toss gently. Serve alongside generous scatterings of toasted coconut, toasted cashews, the greenish parts of the greenish onions, together with cilantro leaves.
Makes 4 servings |
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