Chickpea Quinoa Salad (20 min lunch idea)

⭐️ Chickpeas and quinoa are combined to create a simple and healthy chickpea quinoa salad with fresh, seasonal veggies and a simple lemon vinaigrette.

This salad offers a nutritious, naturally vegan, gluten-free meal choice that will please even the pickiest eaters.

⭐️ Ingredients
For the Quinoa
1 cup uncooked quinoa or about 3 cups cooked quinoa
2 cups water or vegetable broth
⅓ teaspoon salt

For the Salad
1 can (15 oz) chickpeas or 1½ cups cooked chickpeas
1½ cup yellow bell pepper
1½ cup cucumber
1½ cup cherry tomatoes
½ cup olives
¼ red onion
⅓ cup parsley
1 ripe avocado optional

For the Dressing
4 tablespoons olive oil extra virgin
2 tablespoons lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon mustard
1 tablespoon maple syrup
½ teaspoon salt
4 twists black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin optional

Metric:
For the Quinoa
200 grams uncooked quinoa or about 3 cups cooked quinoa
480 grams water or vegetable broth
⅓ teaspoon salt

For the Salad
230 grams chickpeas or 1½ cups cooked chickpeas
200 grams yellow bell pepper
200 grams cucumber
250 grams cherry tomatoes
½ cup olives
40 grams red onion
⅓ cup parsley
1 ripe avocado optional

For the Dressing
55 grams olive oil extra virgin
30 grams lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
15 grams mustard
15 grams maple syrup
½ teaspoon salt
4 twists black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin optional

❤️ Cooking should be done with caution. Pay attention while using knives and cooking tools. Nico is a trained chef, and it is solely for entertainment purposes that he sometimes looks into the camera while he cooks. ❤️

[Sin_Novedad]

Made this just now. My wife loves me a whole lot more now. ❤ thank you for sharing this recipe!!

[gracegwozdz]

Quinoa Salad: quinoa, chickpeas, parsley, cherry tomatoes, red onion, diced red pepper, diced cucumber, & dressing: lemon juice, olive oil, mustard, honey, salt & pepper.

[NicolaHalsall]

I was just heading into the kitchen to make some uninspiring sandwiches to take to work when this video popped up. Tomorrow's lunch looks much more interesting now

[ralucadudescu]

I love this recipe and I find all his other salad recipes interesting, even if some are not fit to my own taste. Finally, a channel with healthy recipes!

[maheshvalecha]

I made as shown, came out amazing refreshing as had all the ingredients necessary

[tcampbell]

Just got finished making this and it tastes wonderful

[usaneebeilles]

What could be more quick, easy & looks superb than this salad recipe. Thank you.

[shadybabe]

so appreciate the ingredients and you even included both kinds of measurements. this will get my subscription unlike all the others that make you go to their ad pop up filled web pages or just dont share at all

[kimcoates]

I'm going shopping for these ingredients now. My plan is to have this dish with grilled salmon that's being cooked on the grill. Yummy😋!

[NicolaHalsall]

Well it was lovely! I'll be making it again

[MsAnnD-orbx]

I added corn and was delicious, dressing is perfect to the salad! 💗👍

[jeangray]

Good morning, you're creative, live healthy, thanks 😅😅😅😅😅

[stephaniemclin]

Thank you ill be adding this to my meal prep menu

[JahRay]

I just made this recipe today and it was amazing! I couldn’t stop eating it

[TheRoseChunsa]

This is the best Quinoa salad with chickpea in it instead all veggies and mustard sauce. Thanks!👍😋

[maheshvalecha]

will try with avocado, grains and cranberries

[smallfootprint]

For those of us who don't eat oil, aqua faba (chic pea cooking water) is a great substitute.

[MrMarkhall]

I've just tried this, delicious.

[jollyvannicen]

Omg, thank you for sharing your salades recipe to the world! They are amazing and you have a new subscriber here, I’m so happy to have found your channel!♥️

[andreea.andreea]

looks great and enough to keep hunger away