Simple ingredients are all it takes to make this Healthy Chickpea Salad. Looking for an easy meatless dinner option? I’ve got you covered.
Nutritious chickpeas combined with fennel and spiralized carrots, lightly coated with a flavourful curry salad dressing.
Give this Chickpea Apple Salad a try too.
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.
RECIPE and INSTRUCTIONS for this garbanzo bean salad can be found at the bottom of this post.
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, and gluten-free. Perfect for plant-based eating.
Chickpeas are a great source of protein, carbs, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The perfect budget-friendly meat alternative and can be used in a variety of recipes.
Chickpea Curry Salad Ingredients
- chickpeas
- fennel
- carrots
- curry flavoured olive oil
- lime juice
- turmeric
- curry powder
- agave nectar
- salt
Making This Healthy Chickpea Salad Is So Easy
This salad is ready to eat in 20 minutes or less.
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!
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
FAQ’s
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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Simple 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.
Dennis
The fennel went so well with the chickpeas! Thanks for sharing this easy-to-make dish!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
I love the combination of fennel and chickpeas too. So glad you liked the salad.
Katie Crenshaw
The flavor combination in this salad is incredible. I love the dressing. It compliments the fennel and chickpeas perfectly.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
I love the curry dressing too. Goes so well with the salad.
Loreto and Nicoletta Nardelli
Such a healthy and nutritious chickpea salad! Love the spiralized fennel and carrot in there!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
Me too, they add to the fun of making this healthy chickpea salad.
Bernice
We’ve been eating a lot more beans and legumes this January. it’s great to eat a bit healthier and we’re saving some money too. This salad is full of great flavours and is a nice change from baked beans.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
We love this recipe using chickpeas, so easy and so affordable.
Ann
I have just started cooking more with chickpeas, so this salad sounds like the perfect recipe to try out! Thanks for the recipe share!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
You are welcome. Chickpeas are so easy to work with.
Dee Broughton
I love chickpeas. This would be a great healthy lunch.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
Great for lunch or dinner. Enjoy!
Jessica Formicola
I had this chickpea salad for lunch yesterday and it was incredible! I will definitely be making it often.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
So glad you enjoyed this healthy chickpea salad recipe.
Giangi Townsend
Super delicious, healthy and so easy to make, we all loved it.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
We enjoy this chickpea salad too.
nancy
I keep coming back to this recipe whenever I’m craving a chickpea salad.
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
Well I am glad you enjoy this healthy chickpea salad recipe. We do too.
Lindsay
I LOVE this, make it for make-ahead lunches and we love keeping it in the fridge!
Gloria Duggan | Homemade & Yummy
This is a great lunch salad for sure. Glad you enjoy it.
Helen
This is JUST the type of thing that I love for a packed lunch, healthy, nutritious and satisfying plus you can make it ahead.
Homemade & Yummy
This is a great make-ahead salad for sure…and nutritious too.
Nicolas Hortense
Yum!! I love chickpeas served like this. Would be a great meal prep dish (:
Homemade & Yummy
This is the perfect make-ahead meal…especially to take for lunch.
Andrea
I love adding chickpeas to salads, and yours looks absolutely delicious, can’t wait to make it!
Homemade & Yummy
I know…they are a great ingredient to work with. Hope you give this a try soon.
Kitty
This salad is so interesting! The curry vinaigrette is perfect for the chickpeas and veggies. Can’t wait to try it!
Homemade & Yummy
Enjoy…this is easy and deliciuos.
Nicole
Yes I will try this salad. I love chick peas! Man I want this right now.
Homemade & Yummy
ENJOY…this is a keeper.