Garlic Lovers Broccoli & Chickpea Salad
This simple but hearty salad is bursting with flavor and addictively delicious! Perfect salad for meal prep or feeding a crowd. Easy to prepare, the broccoli is perfectly "cooked" but crunchy broccoli and so flavorful! Note: "Cook time" is the broccoli resting for an hour after being tossed with the hot garlic oil. Active time: 20 minutes
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt or to taste
- 4 cups broccoli florets preferably cut into bite size florets
- 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 4 fat garlic cloves minced
- Large pinch crushed red pepper flakes or more to taste
- 1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes packed in oil chopped into bite size pieces
- 1 15 oz can chickpeas drained and well rinsed
- 1/2 - 1 teaspoon oregano add more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper or more to taste
- 1 teaspoon Fresh thyme or more to taste
- 1/2 -1 cup feta crumbled
- 1/2 cup fresh basil torn
- salt to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, stir together the vinegar and the salt
- Add broccoli and toss to combine
- In a large small saucepan, heat olive oil until hot but not smoking. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, lowering heat as needed. Should take about 1 minute -- remove from heat when garlic starts to brown
- Stir pepper flakes
- Pour 1/2 to 3/4 of the hot oil over broccoli and toss well, reserving the remaining oil for later.
- Cover the bowl with the broccoli and let sit for 1 hour at room temperature.
- After broccoli has sat an hour, add the chickpeas, sun dried tomatoes, oregano, pepper, remaining garlic oil, and thyme. Toss well to combine.
- Add feta and fresh basil, Toss to combine. Taste and add more of any herb or ingredient to taste. Serve and enjoy!
- Stores well in the refrigerator in a sealed container for several days.
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LOVED this! Super quick & easy to make! I used herbs de Provence as a substitute for all the fresh herbs because I was short on time and added harissa, it turned out delicious. Thanks for sharing ?
This was a delicious way to get veggies and fiber in! Omitted the garlic due to food intolerances and it was still great!
Great! So happy you love it too!
Love this dish. The garlic oil gave the broccoli a delicious taste. The garbanzo beans and feta go well together. Made a batch and had it for lunch two days in a row. Love your recipes
Thank you! So happy you love it!
This salad was very quick and easy to make and my children loved it too. We ate it more as a main dish with some rice. Had Tomato and lentil soup as a starter. I made a note on the recipe to double the amount next time as we all loved it so much ( 5 persons )
Happy you loved it so much that you want to double it next time! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This was awesome….we diced a lb or 2 of shrimp and tossed it in at the end. Great for a healthy meal.