Chickpea Salad with blue cheese


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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 236.7
  • Total Fat: 11.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 6.3 mg
  • Sodium: 584.2 mg
  • Total Carbs: 26.9 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 5.5 g
  • Protein: 7.5 g

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Introduction

Perfect with pork or beef roasts. This salad can be made ahead and chilled. Bring to room temperature before serving. Perfect with pork or beef roasts. This salad can be made ahead and chilled. Bring to room temperature before serving.
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    Olive Oil, .25 cup
    Onions, .5 cup, chopped
    Garlic, 3 tsp, diced
    Chickpeas (garbanzo beans), 3.5 cups
    Parsley, .5 cup, minced
    Blue Cheese, .5 cup, crumbled
    Black Olives, 16 jumbo, pitted and chopped
    Scallions, .25 cup, chopped
    Jalapeno Peppers, 1 pepper, minced
    Lemon Juice, 1 oz

Directions

Heat oil in skillet over medium until it shimmers.
Add onion and garlic; cook until softened, 3-4 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and allow onion mixture to cool slightly.
Combine chickpeas, parsley, cheese, olives, scallions, jalapeno and lemon juice in a large bowl.
Stir in onion mix; toss to coat.
Makes (8) 1/2 cup servings.

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TONCHWILL.

Member Ratings For This Recipe


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    Incredible!
    This was a very delicious salad. I cut the oil in 1/2 and the blue cheese down to 1/4 cup, and that worked really great too. I would make this again anytime because of it's nutritional benefits. Thanks for sharing.

    - 9/13/10