This Indian inspired chickpea salad is simple and delicious. Looking for an easy meatless dinner option? I’ve got you covered.
Nutritious chickpeas combined with fennel and spiralled carrots, lightly coated with a flavourful curry salad dressing. Give this chickpea apple salad a try too. Did you know you can make a chickpea salad wrap too?
Chickpea salad tossed in a fresh and flavourful Indian spiced dressing. Great for a healthy lunch or side dish.
Preparing food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner can seem like such a chore and downright overwhelming for some. I guess that is why takeout is so popular.
Don’t even get me started on the price of food these days. I know I am looking for some meatless meal options to ease the grocery budget.
This easy chickpea salad recipe is vegan, vegetarian, dairy and gluten-free. Perfect for plant-based eating. Great for using as a filling in a chickpea pita.
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Chickpea Salad Ingredients
- chickpeas
- fennel
- carrots
- curry flavoured olive oil
- lime juice
- turmeric
- curry powder
- agave nectar
- salt
Indian Inspired Chickpea Salad
This salad is ready to eat in 20 minutes or less. Great for meal prep. Full instructions are in the recipe card.
Step One: Rinse your chickpeas in a wire mesh strainer and set aside.
I used a spiralizer to cut the carrots (I love using kitchen gadgets), but you can cut them however you like. Grate, julienne, dice, there is NO wrong way to get the job done. The same goes for the fennel. I just thinly sliced it.
Step Two: Combine the ingredients for the curry dressing and set aside.
Step Three: Place the carrots, fennel and chickpeas in a bowl. Toss in the chickpeas. Pour on the dressing and mix.
Place in bowls, garnish and eat! This plant-based salad recipe is so easy to make. Fresh vegetables and vibrant dressing combine to make a protein packed salad.
Suggestions/Recipe Tips
- Canned chickpeas are so convenient, easy, and quick. Feel free to prepare dried chickpeas from scratch.
- Curry oil can be replaced with olive oil or avocado oil. You can also increase or decrease the amount of curry powder used in the recipe to suit your taste.
- Carrots and fennel are perfect with this curry dressing. However, you can use any vegetables you like. Cabbage, lettuce, and spinach are great options.
- Agave nectar can be replaced with honey or coconut sugar.
- Store leftovers in the fridge in a sealed container. It will last for several days. The carrots and fennel will not get too soft.
- Garnish can be anything you like. I used the fennel fronds. Pumpkin seeds are a great option
Absolutely! They are cooked and ready to eat. Be sure to rinse well before eating.
Yes, they are. In the US they are called chickpeas. In Europe, they are called garbanzo beans.
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Indian Spiced Chickpea Salad
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 5 ounces fennel (sliced)
- 5 ounces carrots (spiralized)
- 14 ounces canned chickpeas (rinsed)
For the Curry Vinaigrette:
- 2 tablespoons curry flavoured olive oil (or any oil)
- 1 ½ tablespoons lime juice
- ⅛ teaspoon turmeric
- ¼ teaspoon curry powder (or to taste)
- ½ teaspoon smoked sea salt (or pink salt)
- 1 teaspoon agave nectar (or honey)
- fennel fronds (for garnish)
Instructions
- Rinse the canned chickpeas with water in a mesh sieve and set aside.
- Cut the fennel and carrots however you like. I thinly sliced the fennel and sprialized the carrots. Place in a bowl.
- Add the chickpeas to the carrots and fennel.
- Mix the vinaigrette ingredients together. Pour over salad ingredients, and toss to coat.
- Divide salad into 2 serving bowls. Garnish with fennel fronds.
Kelsey
This would be a great healthy lunch option! I love everything you have in here!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes the perfect make-ahead salad for the work week.
Sharon
What a great salad! The perfect dish and I love the addition of the curry vinaigrette to it.
Homemade & Yummy
This really is easy and super nutritious. Hope you give it a try soon.
Cathleen
I totally agree. I usually try to make my own chickpeas, but cans are so much EASIER!! This salad looks amazing!
Homemade & Yummy
Yup for sure. I always have them on hand….so convenient too.
Daniela
I love the flavor combination in this salad! And it’s so easy to make. Great recipe!
Homemade & Yummy
This is a great make-ahead salad for sure. Hope you give it a try.
Dominique | Perchance to Cook
This salad sounds so unique and tasty!! I love spiralized carrots but surprisingly haven’t used them in carrot form. What a good idea! That curry vinagraitte sounds sooooo yummy!
Homemade & Yummy
My husband doesn’t even like raw carrots, but he loves them in this salad.
Julie
My 3 year old LOVES chickpeas – he will be thrilled to find this packed in his preschool lunch next week!
Homemade & Yummy
What a healthy lunch for sure.
Aditi Bahl
I love fennel. So this salad is anyways got a place on my next to try out list. I loved your idea of using curry powder in the viniagrade .Will try this soon.
Homemade & Yummy
Enjoy…this is easy, delicious and nutritious all in one salad.
Toni
This is such a gorgeous salad! Looks flavorful!
Homemade & Yummy
Quick, easy and delicious. Hope you give it a try.
Liren
I always have these ingredients on hand so I can’t wait to try it!
Homemade & Yummy
Thanks for stopping by. Hope you give this recipe a try soon.
Dan
I am totally in love with chickpeas and I think they are such an unsung culinary hero for so many reasons! Your salad looks both interesting and flavorful and I especially love your use of fennel in this one!
Homemade & Yummy
Thanks so much. This is such an easy and delicious salad to make. Perfect for make-ahead lunches too.
Ashley
I love chickpeas as a meatless option. I will keep this recipe in mind for my future Meatless Mondays!
Homemade & Yummy
The perfect Meatless Monday option
Stephanie Simmons
This is so easy to pull together! I love this for easy lunches throughout the week – thanks for a great recipe!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes it is perfect for make-ahead lunches.
Dana
This is such a fantastic recipe, Gloria! I love a good curry vinaigrette AND chickpea salad, so bringing them together is a total win in my books. Hearty, delicious, and full of feelgood <3
Homemade & Yummy
So easy and delicious….and totally nutritious.
Natalie
Chickpea salads somehow turned out to be my favorite salads. I fell in love in chickpeas this summer. I can’t wait to make this salad. It sounds really delicious. And that vinaigrette… just yum!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes the curry oil is amazing. Hope you enjoy this as much as we do.
Eva
This salad sounds fantastic, except for the fact that fennel is probably the one food I just dislike the most. I was very late in the spiralizer game as I only got myself one earlier this year so I’m still an excited newbie, so anytime I see a new recipe that requires the use of it I get excited. I huess I’d just have to skip the fennel in this one. But I saw you linked to a different salad with apple, so I might as well check that one out – maybe it suits my taste even more!
Homemade & Yummy
Fennel is a hit and miss ingredient for sure. I never used to like it, but it does go nicely in this salad.