Saturday, July 10, 2010

Chickpea salad (Turkish-inspired)

This was sort of a blend of several salad recipes I had done during Turkish month.
Ingredients:
  • 1 cup dried garbanzo beans, cooked
  • one tomato
  • 3/4 cup chopped parsley
  • 1/4 cup chopped mint
  • pinch of ground coriander
  • 3 tablespoons dressing:  50/50 lemon juice and olive oil with salt and pepper to taste

Preparing the chickpeas:
  • soaked for 24 hours
  • simmer for one hour
By the end of cooking, many of the garbanzo bean skins were coming off and some of the beans/peas were splitting in half.  Undesirable in my opinion.

In the end, I thought this salad turned out really well: meaty from the beans, fresh with the parsley and interesting flavor with the mint and coriander.


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