Wake up your palate with a refreshing fusion of flavorful pops in this Baharat Spiced Summer Chickpea Salad. It's a quick & easy dish fit for your healthy diet!

Serves 4

Ingredients:

Baharat Spice Salad Dressing

• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 4 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 clove garlic minced
• ½ tsp Baharat Spice
• ½ tsp chilli flakes (optional)
• 1 tsp dried thyme
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp cumin seeds

 For the salad

• 200g cooked chickpeas (or a 400g, 14oz, chickpea tin drained and rinsed)
• 4 radishes chopped
• 6 cherry tomatoes quartered
• 1 red (bell) pepper deseeded and chopped
• A handful mint leaves chopped
• A handful coriander (cilantro) chopped

Instructions:

1. First make the baharat sauce.
2. Mix all the ingredients together except the cumin seeds.
3. Heat a frying pan on medium heat and add in the cumin seeds and toast them until fragrant.
4. Add in the baharat mix and stir for approximately 1 min and then remove from the heat and let cool. Try not to have a foodgasm at this moment as this smells soooooooo good.
5. Now combine all the ingredients for the salad together and pour over the baharat sauce and mix till everything is coated in the sauce.
6. Chill for a few hours so that the flavours really meld together.
7. Stir again before serving.

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Source: Recipes from a Pantry

Photo Credit to: Recipes from a Pantry