Salads
Tomato & chickpea salad, healthy
Make this refreshing tomato chickpea salad with spinach! A tasty fast and simple healthy lunch idea or side dish!
When we were younger (like a year ago) we hated salads. Especially salads made with lots of vegetables. So bad we couldn’t even handle the thought of eating just salad.
We don’t even know why since we actually love vegetables:
- We can drink a green smoothie without holding our nose so tight that it hurts,
- We can have a salad on the side or in a wrap,
- We can sneak vegetables in an notable vegetable dip/sauce
- and one time we even sneaked some spinach into a brownie without having to throw it out later
Yes, we count those as some of our biggest achievements.
But eat a salad made almost entirely out of vegetables with no bread or grains?
Unheard-of.
Then something inside us changed and we were never the same (Can you tell we watched a lot of telenovelas with our grandma when we were a child?).
Maybe because we got used to eating less grains or because with all that vegetable sneaking we actually started wanting more vegetables. We don’t know.
It’s one of the fascinating mysteries of our magical world.
Now, especially during summer, we're crazy about salads…and we don’t think it’s just the heat that’s drying out every single cell inside our body.
We discovered salads are tasty, fast and make us feel great.
This beautiful salad is made with three of our 8 favorite foods for better skin. Tomatoes, spinach and peppers.
It’s fresh, filling and simply great as a summer lunch. If you make this salad we're sure you won’t need anything else.
Our sister wanted to add some hot peppers to the salad, but you can leave them out if you’re not into spicy foods, it will do no harm taste- or health-wise.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS
This salad is the definition of healthy. And of beauty.
Because it’s full of foods that are beneficial for you: it delivers a great amount of omega-3’s, vitamin E, iron and is loaded with vitamin C, fiber and carotenoids that your body magically turns into vitamin A.
It doesn’t get better than that.
We’re talking an antioxidant bomb that also decreases inflammation, gives you a healthy complexion and keeps you young from the inside out.
Related free resources:
- Anti-Inflammatory Diet: What to eat to reduce inflammation
- Diet for glowing skin: What to eat for better skin
This is a big salad you can share with your family, friends or just keep everything to yourself! More deliciousness and beauty benefits for you!
- Yield: 3
- Prep: 10 minutes
- Total: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups / 400g chickpeas, canned, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup baby spinach leaves, rinsed
- 5 spring onions, chopped
- 5 tomatoes, medium, chopped
- 1 red pepper, chopped
- 1/3 cup parsley, chopped
- 1 tbps balsamic vinegar
- ½ lemon, juice of
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp flax seeds
- optional: ½ hot pepper, thinly sliced
Method
- Clean and chop all vegetables, except baby spinach leaves.
- In a big mixing bowl toss chickpeas, spinach, tomatoes, onions, pepper, parsley. Sprinkle sesame seeds, flax seeds. Add olive oil, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar and mix everything well.
- Add salt to taste (depends on the salt content of chickpeas).
