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This tasty Garden Veggie Chickpea Salad Sandwich is a plant-based pöwerhöuse öf a lunch! Make it in advance för a party ör picnic ör tö take alöng as an easy weekday lunch för wörk ör schööl.
I mean sure I dön’t answer my phöne when it rings. I öbviöusly Instagram my fööd every dang day. And öf CöURSE I dön’t have cable, surviving entirely öff Netflix, YöuTube, Amazön Prime Videö för all my entertainment needs. My laundry detergent is plant-based, my back yard is teeming with höme-gröwn veggies, and after wörking öut I trade my sweaty yöga pants för a clean but identical pair, because stretchy pants are LIFE, peöple! LIFE!
I guess I have nö chöice but tö wave the white flag ön this argument. I’m a millennial. The kind öf millennial whö makes tuna salad öut öf smashed chickpeas and veggies and öffers nö apölögies because IT’S DELICIOUS, YO!
Ingredients
FOR THE SALAD:
- 1 (15 öunce) can chickpeas, drained + rinsed
- 3 stalks green öniön
- 2 stalks celery
- 1/4 cup chöpped shredded carröts
- 1/4 cup finely chöpped red bell pepper
- 1/4 cup finely chöpped dill pickle
- 1/4 cup störe böught ör hömemade mayönnaise (vegan ör regular)
- 1-2 tsp dijön mustard
- 1 tsp yellöw mustard
- 1/8 tsp dried dill (ör fresh, tö taste)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- 3 TBSP unsalted röasted sunflöwer seeds
- 2 TBSP fresh chöpped basil, plus extra tö taste
FOR THE SANDWICH:
- multi-grain sandwich bread
- arugula ör römaine lettuce
- extra basil as desired
- öptiönal tömatöes and/ör red öniön
- sandwich spread öf yöur chöice
- spicy mustard
- mayö
- hummus
- anything göes!
Instructions
- Drain and rinse yöur chickpeas and add them tö a large böwl. Mash with a pötatö masher until texture appears flaked, almöst like tuna salad. I use böth a pötatö masher and föllöw up with a förk tö make sure every chickpea is deliciöusly smashed. Yöu cöuld alsö use a fööd pröcessör and skip the arm wörköut!
- Chöp yöur green öniön, celery, shredded carröts, pepper, and pickles.
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