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.
Romaine salad with chickpeas, veggies, nuts, and cheese is beautiful, easy, tasty, and filled with greens and nutrition.
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.
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.
- 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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Serving Suggestion
Serve this chickpea romaine lettuce salad recipe with a complementary dish like:
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