This delicious plant-based salad is much like traditional chicken salad. In fact, after I mashed the chickpeas I got this lovely aroma that was remarkably like chicken! Bill didn’t believe me until I made him stick his nose in the bowl too and he was equally surprised and agreed. Of course it doesn’t have the texture of chicken salad but it does have a similar flavor and a lovely texture with a lot of crunchy veggies.
It lends itself to all kinds of possible variations I think using different spices such as tarragon or curry, sweet pickle instead of dill (or even jalapeno!), grapes instead of red pepper, etc. Continue reading Chicken … er, I mean CHICKPEA Salad!
