Warm Chickpea Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    3 tomatoes, cut into quarters and seeds removed
    4 teaspoons olive oil
    2 small red chilies, deseeded and sliced
    3 garlic cloves, crushed
    1 red onion, finely chopped
    1/4 1/4 cup vegetable stock or 1/4 cup water
    400 g chickpeas, drained and rinsed (garbonzos 14 oz)
    4 tablespoons parsley, chopped
    1 tablespoon lemon juice
    1/2 teaspoon lemon zest, zested finely
Preparation
    Deseed the tomatoes and chillies. Chop tomatoes into a rough dice and finely slice the chillies.
    Heat the oil in a large frypan/skillet. Add the chilli, garlic and red onion. Stir over a medium heat for about 5 mintus.
    Add the chopped tomatoes and the wine/stock/water (whichever of your choice). Reduce heat to low. Cover the skillet (if you dont have a lid you can use aluminium foil). Cook for another 8-10 minutes. The mixture should be soft and most of the liquid evaporated.Remove from the heat.
    Lightly stir in the chickpeas (or other white beans) , parsley, lemon juicend lemon zest.Season to taste with freshly ground salt and pepper.
    Serve with lemon wedges.

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