With this chickpea and chicken salad you will enjoy a healthy meal that is delicious at the same time, because you don’t have to eat bland and unpalatable things to be healthy.
This diet chickpea salad is perfect for all those people who want to have a proper and healthy diet since all the ingredients are low in calories and legumes are highly recommended for these cases, although they are higher in calories as long as they are eaten in moderation..
For all these reasons, enjoy this step-by-step and prepare a salad of canned or raw chickpeas, but equally easy to prepare. You will not regret!
Ingredients to make Chickpea and Chicken Salad:
- 200 grams of dry or cooked chickpeas
- 1 filleted chicken breast
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 1 spring onion
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- fresh chives
- 1 handful of clean Canons
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of pepper
- 1 splash of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 splash of lemon juice
How to make Chickpea and Chicken Salad:
1 To prepare this chickpea and chicken salad, it is preferable that you buy the cooked legumes to save time, but if not, the first step you will have to do is to cook the chickpeas in plenty of water for the necessary time according to the manufacturer’s instructions. It is preferable that you leave them to soak for a few hours with water and a bit of bicarbonate so that they soften. Once cooked, drain them and reserve them for later.
If we already have the pot of cooked chickpeas, what we will do is let them drain in a colander while we prepare the rest of the ingredients. You can take advantage of the chickpea water to make a vegan meringue, for example.
Tip: Always add the salt at the end of cooking because otherwise the chickpeas will be left with the hardest skin.
2 Next, wash and cut the peppers into pieces and chop the spring onion. Then we place them in a frying pan with a splash of olive oil and begin to poach the vegetables for the cold chickpea salad.
3 Next, fry the filleted chicken breast in another pan with a drizzle of olive oil, seasoning it to taste. And then we cut it into small pieces and add it to the other pan with the vegetables from the canned chickpea salad.
4 While the chicken is frying, cut the cherry tomatoes in half and chop the fresh chives. Then we add the drained cooked chickpeas to the pan with the vegetables and the chopped chicken and sauté them all together for a few minutes.
5 At the last moment, we add the sliced cherry tomatoes and the chopped chives to the diet chickpea salad and sauté everything again for a couple more minutes.
6 Finally, we place all the ingredients of the pan in a large bowl or bowl, add the cleaned lamb’s lettuce, season with salt and pepper, add a splash of olive oil and lemon juice to taste, and we can taste our chickpea and chicken salad whenever we want ! !
Tip: You can also use vinegar instead of lemon juice, as you like best.
