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Greek-Style Chickpea Salad

No cooking: a tin of chickpeas, feta and crunchy veg in 10 minutes. Serves 2, about 10 minutes.

Greek-Style Chickpea Salad - AI-generated illustration

Photo: AI-generated illustration of the dish.

You'll need

  • 1 tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed (400g)
  • Half cucumber, diced
  • 200g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • Half red onion, thinly sliced
  • 10 pitted green olives, halved
  • 100g feta, crumbled
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

Method

How to make it

  1. Chop

    Dice the cucumber, halve the tomatoes and slice the onion as thinly as you can.

  2. Toss

    Put the chickpeas, cucumber, tomatoes, onion and olives in a large bowl and toss together.

  3. Dress

    Drizzle over the olive oil and lemon juice, season with black pepper (the feta and olives are salty) and toss again.

  4. Top

    Crumble the feta over the top and serve.

Shopping list

  • Chickpeas x1 tin
  • Cucumber x1
  • Cherry tomatoes 200g
  • Red onion x1
  • Pitted green olives
  • Feta 100g
  • Olive oil
  • Lemon juice

What's in a portion

404kcalCalories (estimated)
20gProtein (estimated)
30gCarbs (estimated)
23gFat (estimated)
8gof which sugars (estimated)

Every figure is an estimate per portion, worked out from UK government food-composition data (CoFID). Your portions and brands will differ, so treat these as a guide. Salt not measured. How our recipes are made.

Allergens

Contains: milk (feta).

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