Spicy Chickpea Spinach Salad
A flavorful, healthy salad that can be eaten as a main course or side dish. The chickpeas combined with spinach, vegetable stock, white wine, and chili flakes gives this salad a deliciously unique taste.
Ingredients
- 1 can chickpeas large size or dried chickpeas
- 2 bags baby spinach small size
- ½ cup dill chopped
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- ¼ cup white wine dry
- ½ cup vegetable stock
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 leek chopped
- 1 tsp chili flakes
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- Place chickpeas in water overnight. Drain and rinse thoroughly the next day. Boil until chickpeas have softened. You can also use store-bought chickpeas to make this process quicker.
- Add chickpeas into the pan along with chopped leek, bay leaf, and olive oil. Stir consistently.
- Add in wine
- Wash and rinse Spinach. Then add into the pan along with the dill. Stir for a few minutes until spinach withers.
- Pour in vegetable stock/broth, stir.
- Add in tomato paste and 1 cup of water. Stir until sauce has thickened.
- Remove bay leaf before serving. This salad can be served hot or cold.
