Chickpea salad

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Ingredients

• 400g can chick peas, drained
• half a red capsicum, chopped
• 1 Lebanese cucumber, chopped
• 1 punnet grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
• half a cup kalamata olives, pitted and halved
• 60g salad leaves
• half a cup basil leaves
• half a cup flat-leaf parsley leaves
• 100g feta, cubed
• 2 tablespoons balsamic dressing
• 5 tablespoons olive oil
• Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

Combine all ingredients in a large salad bowl.

Whisk balsamic dressing, olive oil, salt and pepper in a small bowl.

Pour about half the dressing over the salad and toss well.

Add more dressing if needed.

Notes:

• I like to drain the chick peas, rinse in cold water and drain again it gets all the starchy coating off them.
• I didnt have any feta in the fridge, so used some goats cheese, which tasted wonderful, but didnt hold up very well with the tossing.
• Fried squares of haloumi cheese are also fabulous in this dish.
• Recipe created by Melissa Hughes for Kidspot.

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