Chickpea Salad with Spiced Chilli Dressing and Tahini Yoghurt

Chickpea Salad with Spiced Chilli Dressing and Tahini Yoghurt

Ready in 25 minutes Serves 3
This dish most recently appeared in My Veggie (4 Nights For 2) on Sunday, August 7, 2016.

If you like spice, add a little more chilli to the dressing to give this salad an extra kick.


Ingredients

CHICKPEA SALAD

  • 400g orange kumara, scrubbed and diced 1cm
  • 1 pack broccolini
  • 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
  • ½ red onion
  • ¼–½ cup parsley
  • 70g rocket leaves

SPICED CHILLI DRESSING

  • 1 tablespoon thyme leaves
  • ½ red chilli
  • 2 tablespoons salad spice mix
  • ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon runny honey
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • Pinch of salt

TAHINI YOGHURT

  • ½ cup natural yoghurt
  • 1 teaspoon tahini paste
  • ½ teaspoon runny honey

TO SERVE

  • 100g feta cheese
  • 40g spiced pepitas

Steps

  1. oven to 230°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper.
  2. Toss kumara with a drizzle of oil and salt and pepper on prepared tray. Roast for 18–20 minutes until tender. Turn once during cooking.
  3. Trim ends off broccolini and cut any larger stalks into halves lengthways. When kumara has 8 minutes cook time remaining, add broccolini and chickpeas to tray, toss and roast until broccolini is tender.
  4. Finely slice red onion, pick leaves from parsley and add both to a large bowl. Set aside.
  5. Finely chop thyme leaves; remove seeds from chilli, then finely slice. Add both to a small bowl with remaining spiced chilli dressing ingredients and whisk until combined. Set aside. Mix all tahini yogurt ingredients in another small bowl and set aside.
  6. Crumble feta cheese, set aside. Toss cooked roast vegetables with the onion, parsley and rocket.
  7. Divide chickpea salad between plates and drizzle over spiced chilli dressing. Sprinkle over crumbled feta and spiced pepitas and top with a dollop of tahini yoghurt.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2666 kj
637 kcal
Protein 23.2g
Carbohydrate 53.7g
Fat 35.3g