In summer, you don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen preparing complex dishes. I want to cook something light, refreshing and quick. Salad with chickpeas, fresh vegetables and feta cheese is just such an easy dish. But for all its lightness, it is quite satisfying. Vegetables and herbs are responsible in the salad for freshness and lightness. And chickpeas and Feta cheese – for satiety.
Ingredients (for 2 servings):
- Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
- Canned chickpeas – 4 tbsp.
- Lettuce or Iceberg lettuce
- Feta cheese – 70-80 gr.
- Red onion – a quarter of an onion
- Lemon juice – 2-3 tsp
- Olive oil – 2 tbsp.
- Dried oregano – pinch
- Ground black pepper – to taste
Cooking process
1 Cut the red onion into thin half rings. Pour lemon juice or wine vinegar on the onion. Leave it to marinate for 5 minutes. As a result, the onion acquires a slight sourness and unpleasant bitterness leaves.
2 Wash lettuce and cucumbers thoroughly. Cut the cucumbers into medium-sized pieces. We tear the salad with our hands into several parts. Cut the feta cheese into cubes.
3 To make a salad dressing: mix olive oil, lemon juice and oregano.
4 When all the ingredients for the salad are ready, proceed to the assembly. Put lettuce leaves, cucumbers, canned chickpeas, onions and feta cheese on a plate. Feta cheese is salty enough, so I don’t salt the salad. Pour dressing on top. Mix everything slightly. On top of the salad with chickpeas, you can also sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper.
A quick summer meal is ready!
Any of these dressings will also work with this salad:
Yogurt salad dressing https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/yoghurt-salad-dressing/
Salad dressings with olive oil https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/salad-dressing/
I also advise you to look at another recipe for a delicious summer salad with strawberries and basil https://takajaeda.com/en/recipes-en/salad-with-strawberries-and-basil/