Mediterranean Chickpea Salad — bright and refreshing, this is the ultimate side salad to entertain with this holiday season! With fresh pomegranate, olives, crisp veggies, toasted pine nuts, and tossed in a sumac vinaigrette, this salad is exactly what I look forward to during Thanksgiving!
WATCH HOW TO MAKE MEDITERRANEAN CHICKPEA SALAD:
For our dressing, we’ll add in olive oil, pomegranate molasses for sweetness, honey, salt, sumac, a generous squeeze of lime, and some crushed garlic. Give this magical dressing a mix and we’re ready to assemble.
I’m using farro but any grain like couscous works. Add in chickpeas, tomatoes, red cabbage, cucumbers, pickled onions, pomegranate, olives, our dressing, and fresh herbs. Toss this all together and you have the most balanced salad that has hints of sweetness and freshness.
For some texture, go in with toasted pine nuts and pumpkin seeds and garnish with some extra mint and feta cheese. Truly this is the most incredible and effortless Thanksgiving side salad, you have to give it a try!
If you like this, please try my other recipes:
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- Awadhi Layered Biryani
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Mediterranean Chickpea Salad — bright and refreshing, this is the ultimate side salad to entertain with this holiday season! 🍁✨ With fresh pomegranate, olives, crisp veggies, toasted pine nuts, and tossed in a sumac vinaigrette, this salad is exactly what I look forward to during Thanksgiving! ❤️
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp maple syrup , or honey
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sumac
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2-3 cloves garlic , minced
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1 cup farro , boiled, you can also use bulgur wheat or couscous or quinoa
- 1 cup chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
- 1/4 cup tomatoes , chopped
- 1/4 cup purple cabbage , chopped
- 1/2 cup cucumber , sliced
- 1/4 cup pickled onions
- 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds
- 1/4 cup black olives , sliced
- 2 tbsp parsley , finely chopped
- 8-10 mint leaves , finely chopped
- pumpkin seeds
- pistachio
- sunflower seeds
- mint leaves
- feta cheese , crumbled
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For your salad dressing, mix together all the dressing ingredients. Mix until the dressing is emulsified.
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Then, in a bowl, mix together the salad ingredients and pour your dressing on top. Toss your salad until everything is well coated.
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Garnish with pistachios, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, mint leaves and feta cheese. Your Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is ready, enjoy!
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Would love to make this but how to pickle onions ?
Mix red onions with vinegar, some hot water, salt, sugar and few pieces of beet
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Can i prepare the salad day before n refrigerate it will the salad loose its flavour or does the dressing need to be added just before serving..
You can make the salad and keep it in the fridge – it will taste really good. Just save a half the dressing and mix it before serving.