Bean salads loaded amongst fresh crunchy vegetables are an incredibly tardily agency to pack enough of protein, fiber, minerals too vitamins into your diet, too a zesty hot, sugariness too sour tamarind too lime dressing larn inwards a delicious pick every bit well. Add about toasted kokosnoot too cashews, too you've got an extraordinarily attractive salad amongst bold Asian flavors. This is a existent winner.
This colorful too salubrious salad was a final infinitesimal inspiration for
this month's edition of No Croutons Required hosted past times my skillful friend Jacqueline of
No Croutons Required. My ain birthday existence inwards March, the chickpea soup or salad subject from March of final twelvemonth happened to coincide nicely amongst a craving for chickpeas (which is itself a fairly regular occurrence). Last minute, precisely no less tasty too wholesome for it.
 Chickpea Salad amongst Tamarind Dressing |
Recipe past times Lisa Turner
Published on April 20, 2011
A colorful too salubrious summertime chickpea too raw vegetable salad amongst bold zesty Asian flavors too garnished amongst toasted kokosnoot too cashews
Salad:
- 1/2 loving cup dried chickpeas (1 1/2 cups cooked or one fourteen oz can)
- 1/2 loving cup diced English linguistic communication cucumber
- 1 red, orangish or yellowish bell pepper, seeded too diced
- 1 celery stalk, diced
- 1 large tomato, chopped
- 1 avocado, peeled too chopped
- 2 jalapeños, seeded too minced
Garnsh:
- 1 tablespoon dried shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1/2 loving cup raw cashews, halved
- 2 light-green onions, light-green too white parts, sliced
- small handful of fresh torn cilantro leaves
Dressing:
- 1 teaspoon tamari sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 1/4 teaspoon tamarind paste
- juice of one lime (2 tablespoons)
- 1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, minced or grated
- 1/2 teaspoon body of body of water salt
- 1/4 teaspoon soil cumin
- pinch of cayenne (optional)
Instructions:
Generation Engelmundus Rinse the chickpeas nether mutual frigidity running H2O too soak overnight inwards a bowl covered inwards several inches of mutual frigidity H2O amongst a lilliputian yogurt whey or lemon juice added. Generation Engelmundus Drain too rinse the soaked chickpeas too add together to a medium saucepan. Cover amongst fresh mutual frigidity H2O too pick out to a boil. Turn the oestrus downward to low, cover, too simmer for one to one 1/2 hours or until the chickpeas are soft too buttery. Drain too gear upwards aside to cool. Generation Engelmundus Toast the kokosnoot over medium-low oestrus inwards a dry out pan, tossing frequently, until golden brown. Remove too gear upwards aside. Return the pan to the oestrus too toast the cashews until golden brown, too gear upwards aside. Generation Engelmundus Meanwhile, whisk together the dressing ingredients along amongst the white parts of the light-green onions, too permit stand. Generation Engelmundus Combine the chickpeas too salad vegetables inwards a mixing bowl. Pour the dressing over the salad too toss gently. Generation Engelmundus Serve amongst generous scatterings of toasted coconut, toasted cashews, the light-green parts of the light-green onions, too cilantro leaves.
Makes 4 servings |
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