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Chickpea Greek Salad
Greek Chickpea Salad with an authentic greek salad dressing is a great salad to serve as a main OR as a side! Loaded with chickpeas, green peppers or capsicum, juicy grape tomatoes, cucumbers, olives and red onion, you will love this salad recipe!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 11 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon garlic (minced, or 1 large garlic cloves, minced)
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano (plus extra to serve)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large cucumber (halved lengthways and sliced)
- 10 ounces grape tomatoes (or cherry tomatoes, halved)
- 1 green pepper (deseeded and sliced)
- ½ red onion (sliced thinly)
- 14 ounce chickpeas (canned, washed and drained)
- 10 ounces pitted Kalamata olives
- 3.5 oz feta cheese (good quality creamy )
Instructions
- 1
Whisk together dressing ingredients in a jug or jar.
- 2
Mix together all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with half of the dressing. Season with extra salt ONLY IF NEEDED (depends how salty your feta cheese is).
- 3
Top with brick of feta cheese and drizzle over remaining dressing .
- 4
Serve with chicken, fish, lamb, beef, the options are endless!