Mashed chickpea salad, healthy

A tuna salad, a chicken salad, a Russian salad, call this whatever you want, it’s actually a vegan mashed chickpea salad. Wrapped in lettuce. Mouthwatering, right?

Look, this one is not as simple as the other salads We usually make here. But it’s not difficult either. This salad is a little different as you’d need to make the mayonnaise part of the salad yourself.

How do you do that? You blend some chickpeas with other ingredients until creamy and that’s it. Simple and satisfying.

We make this salad quite often, but we're having a hard time eating it without bread. We love bread. To us, bread is like home. It’s all we ate when we were a child, our mom used to give us some bread with butter and some spice (talk about getting your nutrients).

Now that we're older, we're fancier. No more butter and spice. No, no, you simple, carefree and boring childhood. Look at us now, we're blending and mashing extravagant chickpeas like we don’t care.

In other news, this salad is solid to make ahead and keeps in the fridge for 3 days. At least ours keeps that long. We noticed that this part depends on how fresh your vegetables are – if we make this salad with vegetables on the verge of molding, we know we can’t keep it for 3 days – the whole thing spoils. That’s just a little tip.

Now, aside from this mashed chickpea salad, we made another one last summer with a secret ingredient. Which if you go to the recipe and scroll down to the recipe box like most impatient folks, you’ll know is peaches. But now you don’t know if we mean the fruit or this Peaches. We'll just let your imagination run wild like a crazy springbok now. Yes, we did check for the fastest mammals on Wikipedia , springbok is in fourth place.

Health and Beauty Benefits

No secret, this salad has tons of benefits. Not only did we get rid of that fat mayonnaise, we also included some fiber, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer nutrients. Here’s how:

• chickpeas – the main ingredient of this salad, a good source of plant-protein, iron and high-fiber (good for your digestion)
• onions – there’s so much to love about these stinkers – they’re rich in soluble fiber and good for digestion, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and they detoxify your body. And they’re a great source of some B-vitamins.
• vinegar – we know people love to talk about apple cider vinegar and how healthy it is for you, but the truth is, vinegar in general (whether apple cider or another type) is always good for you. Vinegar is good for your cardiovascular health, it’s shown to suppress appetite and to help lower the glycemic index of high glycemic index foods by 30%. Now, what does this mean? You eat bread with vinegar and your blood sugar doesn’t spike like crazy – it stays stable.

Of course, there are many other healthy ingredients in this salad like fresh peppers, basil, turmeric, cumin and they all provide your body with good nutrients to keep you healthy.

Now, we'll go have some whole grain bread and pretend it’s the same as the white thing.