Chickpea Salad with Cheese

Name: Chickpea Salad with Cheese
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 1 red onion; 1 green tomato; 1 lemon; 2 cups of boiled chickpea; 6 sprigs of mint; 2 sprigs of red basil; 3.5 ounces of feta cheese; 3 tablespoons of olive oil; Some salt

Turkish / Salad

June 23, 2020

This salad can be a nutritious meal for those who pay attention to their form and fitness. You can prepare it in 5 minutes, a salad recipe with fresh greens awaits you. A delicious meal for any season. Bon Appetit!

Taste Score: %73

Difficulty Easy

Servings 4 people

Preparation 5 mins

Cooking 0 mins

Total 5 mins

Tips

You can have this salad with crackers to enrich your meal.

Ingredients

1 red onion
1 green tomato
1 lemon
2 cups of boiled chickpea
6 sprigs of mint
2 sprigs of red basil
3.5 ounces of feta cheese
3 tablespoons of olive oil
Some salt

Directions

Chop the red onion into cubes and then put it in a small bowl.
Mix the olive oil, salt and lemon juice into the bowl according to your taste and rest it on the side.
Add boiled chickpeas to the bowl, and roughly crushed white cheese.
Then finely chop 6 sprigs of fresh mint, and red basil to add flavor and add to the bowl and mix.
While mixing, be careful not to crush chickpeas and feta cheese.
Chop the green tomato into small apple slices and place it on the salad bowl.
Pour the salad dressing on top and enjoy.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 Chickpea Salad with Cheese

Serves 4

Amount Per Serving

Calories545

% Daily Value*

Cholesterol 19 mg6.3%

Sodium 307 mg13.3%

Potassium 1073 mg22.8%

Protein 23.6 g47.2%

Total Fat 21.3 g27.3%

*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

What are the benefits of chickpeas?

The chickpea, which is the favorite of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine, is a complete source of protein, fiber and carbohydrates. It has endless benefits for your health. With its high fiber content, it helps regulate digestion and blood sugar, maintains insulin and blood sugar at normal levels, prevents the development of diabetes, reduces the risk of heart diseases. Thanks to its richness in iron, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and copper, it is considered one of the important nutrients for bone health. It is very difficult to get selenium naturally from fruits and vegetables because it does not exist naturally in them, but chickpeas appear as a legume rich in this mineral as well. Thanks to selenium, it provides regular functioning of thyroid hormone, regulation of liver enzymes, helps detoxification of cancer-causing toxins.