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Chickpea Salad Sandwich

The chickpea salad sandwich filling to make in bulk for easy lunches and snacks all week. A perfect vegetarian or vegan sandwich option.

Prep

15 min

Cook

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Total

15 min

Serves

6

Instructions

  1. 01

    Press the capers with a paper towel to removes as much moisture as possible. Place them in a small, cold skillet along with the olive oil, and then begin to fry them over medium heat. Stir often, and cook until the capers start to brown. Transfer to a paper towel to cool.

  2. 02

    In a large bowl smash the chickpeas well. I like to smash as many whole chickpeas as possible. Alternately, you can pulse the chickpeas in a food processor for this step. Add the yogurt, mustard, green onions, celery, walnuts, relish, serrano chile, and fried capers to the chickpeas. Stir well, until uniform. Taste and add a bit of salt and pepper if you like. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon across the top, stir again, and adjust with more as needed. Refrigerate until ready to assemble sandwiches.

  3. 03

    When you’re ready to make sandwiches, toast the bread if you like, rubbing with a bit of olive oil and a garlic clove after. Top with a generous scoop of the chickpea salad. You can serve open faced or topped with a second slice of bread. An optional dusting of curry powder and a side of a few potato chips is always welcome. Enjoy!

Nutrition

per serving · 1 serving

Calories
501
Protein
23g
Carbs
74g
Fat
14g
Fiber
16g
Cholesterol
4mg

Variations & swaps

Variations!

  • The recipe I’m posting down below is my base “go-to” chickpea salad sandwich recipe. But I love to play around. Here are some variations I’ve enjoyed over there years to encourage you to also experiment with the ingredients you have on hand.
  • Ultra Hippie Chickpea Salad Sandwich: To the chickpea salad, add a couple handfuls of finely chopped kale & toasted sunflower seeds in place of the walnuts, and a tablespoon or so of nutritional yeast. Finish with crushed toasted nori or nori furikake.
  • Spicy Chickpea Salad Sandwich: I love a spicy everything, but with this sandwich like the lead spicy component *on* the sandwich, not mixed in. Tabasco, Cholula, or other hot sauce sprinkled across the top of the chickpea salad component is where it’s at for me. Calabrian Chile paste is also A+ here as the spicy topping.
  • Vegan Chickpea Salad Sandwich: To make this sandwich vegan, use your favorite plant-based, vegan yogurt. You basically want something to pull all the ingredients together, so if you don’t have a vegan yogurt on hand, you can experiment with a vegan mayo, tahini, or a combination of the two as well. Keep in mind, this is basically a vegan “tuna” salad sandwich, with smashed chickpeas standing in…
  • Different beans: You might want to switch up the type of bean you use. Play around. You can look for different bean varietals on the bean recipes page.
  • The recipe included below is my base starting point, but play around a bit with the ingredients you keep on hand and love. Other things I like to mix in (not all at once): shredded basil in summer, a smoked salt, finely shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, a couple teaspoons of miso, a bit of preserved lemon. Have fun, experiment, and let me know any favorite combinations you come up with.
  • I hope you enjoy this sandwich as much as I do, it really is one of my favorite, easy, feel-good lunches. If you love chickpeas as much as I do here’s where you can browse more chickpea recipes - there are tons!
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