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What’s Cooking?…Lemon Sesame Chickpea Salad

I just love hummus and felafal. I always keep dried chickpeas in my pantry for that reason, in case the mood strikes and naturally they are great for the vegetarians in your family. I wanted to have some of those flavors but not necessarily fried like felafal, or on bread like hummus. I thought the best solution was to make a salad. This is practically a meal in itself, or it will make a great accompaniment with whatever else you have going, plus you can make this ahead of time.

Incidently, this is a very tasty and nutritious vegan salad!

Ingredients

1 x 400 g tin of chickpeas rinsed, or you can prepare your own.

I x green capsicum

1x red capsicum

1 stick of celery

1 x red onion

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

2 tablespoons tahini

juice of 1 large lemon

1 small clove of garlic crushed

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon ground coriander

pepper and salt to taste

3 tablespoons water

2 tablespoons black sesame seeds toasted

Method

Put the rinsed chickpeas in a serving bowl. Add the finely diced capsicums celery, red onion and parsley and gently mix together. To make the dressing, mix the tahini with lemon juice , water, cumin, coriander, garlic, salt and pepper. Mix until smooth. Pour over the salad and fold through. Add about 3/4 of the tossed sesame seeds and fold them through. Garnish by sprinkling the remainder of the sesame seeds on the top. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

Incidentally I served this with some baked sweet potato fries! Have a great day!