Chickpea and tofu salad is a new favorite in our family. It is both heart healthy and delicious. It's packed with plant protein and fiber and is also a great option for those who are vegan and gluten free. These days everyone in my family is eating clean and will usually ask me to make a salad bowl. This colorful and delicious salad has become part of my salad recipes. There’s nothing like a fresh salad. Salads are of course healthy and contrary to popular belief they can be quite filling and satisfying! This particular salad is a combination of greens, cucumber, tomatoes, and some fruit which gives it a fresh taste. Add in some chickpeas and tofu with my special homemade dressing and you have a great meal! It’s unbelievably tasty and nutritious too! I love eating leftovers all week long. This super delicious salad is full of flavor and textures and is really easy to prepare.This recipe will serve 4. Prep time 20 minutes. Assembly time is 5 minutes.
Course Salad
Cuisine Fusion
Prep Time 20 minutesminutes
Cook Time 5 minutesminutes
Equipment
Blendtec Classic Blender
butane stove
All-Clad Fry Pan
Ingredients
For salad dressing
¼cupfresh lemon juice
¼cuproasted sesame seeds
2Tbspnutritional yeast
¼cupolive oil
¼tspsalt
¼tspblack pepper
2tspsugar
1Tbspgingerfinely shredded
2Tbspfresh orange juice
Tofu
6ozfirm tofu
¼tspsalt
¼tspblack pepper
1Tbspgingerfinely shredded
2tsplemon juice
Chickpeas
15ozcan of chickpea
1Tbspoil
¼tspsalt
¼tspblack pepper
1tsplemon juice
1tspginger juice
Other Salad Ingredients
1cupromaine lettuce roughly chopped
½cupspinach leaves roughly chopped
¼cupcucumbercut into bite size, I am using Asian cucumber
¼cuppearcut into bite size pieces
½orangepeeled and cut into bite size pieces
8cherry tomatocut into half
1Asian cucumberthinly sliced long ways
Instructions
For Dressing:
blend all the salad dressing ingredients together, lemon juice, roasted sesame seeds, nutritional yeast, olive oil, salt, black pepper, sugar, ginger, orange juice. Dressing should be pourable consistency. Keep aside.
Tofu: drained the water and pat dry the tofu, cut the tofu in about ½ inch cubes. Grill the tofu over medium heat. lightly oil the pan and spread the tofu pieces, grill the tofu from both sides until they are light brown. It will take about 3 minutes.
Drizzle, lemon juice over tofu, salt and black pepper turn them lightly. Turn of the heat and take them out in a bowl.
Prepare chickpeas:
drain the water and wash the chickpea. Sauté the chickpeas over medium heat, add oil, oil should be moderately hot add chickpeas, drizzle salt, black pepper, lemon juice and ginger. Stir them together for about 2 minutes. Chickpeas will have a nice flavor.
Assembling the salad:
use the bowl you will serve the salad, spread lettuce, spinach leaves (remove the stems from spinach), add cucumber, pair cut, orange and tomatoes.
Next drizzle about 2 tablespoons of dressing and toss them together. Add about 1/3 cup of chickpeas and 1/3 cup of grilled tofu on one side I am also putting few slices of cucumber, to dress it up.
Now again drizzle about 2 tablespoons of dressing. salad is ready to serve.
For this recipe use the chickpea, tofu, vegetables, and fruits quantity of your choice.
Notes
you can make plenty of salad dressing in advance and refrigerate it in a jar, you can save this dressing for up to a week. You can use this dressing in any salad, it tastes grate. Prepare the tofu and chickpeas also in advance and refrigerate, they will be good for 3-4 days. Add the greens and fruits of your choice.You will also enjoy: Millet Soup, Mango Salsa, Potato soup, Masala idli