This easy chopped romaine lettuce and chickpea (garbanzo bean) salad recipe has sliced cucumbers, radishes, cherry tomatoes, chopped pecans and crumbled blue cheese.

This chopped salad with garbanzo beans is tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette.

Two shallow white bowls filled with chopped lettuce, sliced cucumbers, sliced radishes, , cherry tomato quarters and blue cheese and pecan crumbles. Brown dressing on side.

Romaine salad with chickpeas, veggies, nuts, and cheese is beautiful, easy, tasty, and filled with greens and nutrition.

Top down view of a cucumber, radishes, and cherry tomatoes in a strainer. Two heads of romaine lettuce on the side and a strainer of garbanzo beans, small plate of pecans, and blue cheese wedge on the side.

Lettuce Salad with Chickpeas Variations

There is no shame in loving crispy romaine or iceberg lettuce. In my experience as a professional cook, people want to like the softer lettuce varieties but really want the crunch and crispness of romaine or iceberg.

This lettuce salad with chickpeas and fixens can be made:

with iceberg lettuce or romaine lettuce or even arugula or spinach
with goat or feta cheese if you don't like blue cheese
Add any favorite ingredients like chopped salami or olives
almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, etc...
your favorite salad dressing if you don't want to make the one in the recipe below.
Trying to cut down on oil? Switch out ½ of the oil in the dressing with water.

Ingredients top down view: bowl of chopped lettuce, small bowl of pecan, small bowl of crumbled blue cheese, strainer full of garbanzo beans, bowl of sliced cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and sliced radishes.

Chopped Romaine Lettuce Salad For The Win!

Cutting lettuce for a chopped salad just means that you chop it any way you know into bite size pieces.

You know when you take a bite of salad with all different size cuts you can look like a cow shoving a forkful of food into your mouth.

Cutting lettuce and the other ingredients for a chopped salad into similar bite size pieces mitigates that look and feel.

Chopped Romaine Lettuce And Chickpea Salad

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This easy chopped romaine lettuce and chickpea (garbanzo bean) salad recipe has sliced cucumbers and radishes, cherry tomatoes, chopped pecans and blue cheese.

Author: beckie
Prep Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Yield: 6
Category: Salad
Method: No Cooking Involved
Cuisine: International
Diet: Gluten Free

Ingredients

Ingredient List Salad:

1 large head romaine lettuce, chopped
1 medium cucumber, peeled & sliced
6 radishes, sliced
¾ cup canned chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 cup cherry tomatoes
½ cup pecans, chopped
½ cup blue cheese, crumbled or cubed

Ingredient List Dressing:

2 teaspoon sharp or dijon mustard
2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
¼ teaspoon salt
pinch black pepper
¼ teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
⅓ cup olive oil

Instructions

Make the dressing: Mix all dressing ingredients in a jar and shake vigorously.

Make the salad:

Mix all salad ingredients except blue cheese and pecans in a bowl. Toss with vinaigrette, plate, and top with pecans, and blue cheese.
Add salt to taste. Happy Eating! Beckie

Notes

Trying to cut down on oil? Switch out ½ of the oil in the dressing with water.

Things In My Kitchen:

3 quart mixing bowl - I love these flat bottomed & wide brimmed mixing bowls for combining ingredients with veggies for roasting and for making salads. The 2 quart and 3 quart are my "go to" bowls for almost everything.

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