This chickpea tabouli recipe ticks all my weeknight meal boxes! It can be made in five minutes and can be a quick side dish or vegetarian main meal. I love it because it's packed with different textures and flavours. As an added bonus, the recipe swaps out couscous for lentils and chickpea which are gluten-free and full of fibre.

I decided to produce a quick 1-minute video to show you just how simple this chickpea tabouli is to prepare.

I added creamy feta, and crunchy roasted nuts and seeds to make this salad something a little more tasty and special. It also adds a whole lot of fabulous nutrients. By using lemon as the salad dressing the ingredients flavours really shine through and calories from fat are kept to a minimum.

Healthy Chickpea Tabouli

Julie Carlyle

This chickpea tabouli recipe ticks all my weeknight meal boxes! It can be made in five minutes and can be a quick side dish or vegetarian main meal.

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Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Course Main, Main Course, Salad, Vegetarian

Cuisine Australian, Middle Eastern

Servings people

Calories 282 kcal

Ingredients

60 g continental Parsley
80 g red onion quartered
130 g tomato quartered (firm)
400 g lentil drained canned weight 240g
400 g chickpea can drained
100 g feta crumbled
25 g raw cashew
25 g mixed pinenut, pepita seed and sunflower seed
1 lemon juice only

Instructions

Place parsley in the TM bowl. Turbo 1 sec.
Scrape the parsley out of the TM and onto the serving dish.
Add the red onion to TM bowl. Turbo ½ sec.
Add the chopped onion and liquid to the parsley in the serving dish.
Place the tomato in TM bowl. Turbo ½ sec.
Add the chopped tomato and liquid to the parsley in the serving dish. If any large pieces remain just chop them by hand.
Add the drained chickpeas, lentil and lemon juice to the parsley salad. Stir gently to combine.
In a dry frying pan toast the nuts and seeds until fragrant and golden. Meanwhile, crumble the feta over the salad.
Add the roasted nuts to the top of the salad and garnish with a few rings of thinly sliced red onion.

Nutrition

Calories: 282kcalCarbohydrates: 65gProtein: 27gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 198mgPotassium: 1055mgFiber: 27gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 295IUVitamin C: 18.1mgCalcium: 168mgIron: 7.7mg

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Simple 5 Min GF Thermomix Feta Chickpea Tabouli