This Healthy Recipe for Chickpea Salad is a great packed lunch salad! Plus it’s full of protein!
We made this vegetarian salad with protein recipe, with extra protein add-ins. So that you can add as much as you like.
For easy lunch salad ideas, this post will supply you with a delicious vegetarian salad, a healthy salad dressing, and added protein options.
These healthy lunch salad recipes are so easy, you can make them in under 5 minutes. And they travel beautifully for work lunch salad meals.
This Healthy Recipe for Chickpea Salad has 17.8 grams of protein… plus more protein add-ins!
Healthy Recipe for Chickpea Salad
This article will supply you with everything you’ll needy to make healthy lunch salad bowls with chickpeas.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll even find a low calorie lemon vinaigrette, low calorie tips. And so much more.
To make these vegetarian salad recipes easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections…
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients for Healthy Lunch Salad with Garbanzo Beans (shopping list!)
- How to Make a Vegetarian Salad for Lunch
- Healthy Recipe for Chickpea Salad (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Healthy Chickpea Salad Recipes
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this recipe for mediterranean chickpea salad to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for chickpea bean salad, and low calorie tips for lunch salad recipes…
Ingredients for Healthy Lunch Salad with Garbanzo Beans
It’s easy to make recipes for chickpea salad healthy and nutritious… This section will show you how to make ALL your vegetarian salads healthier.
Low Calorie Vegetarian Salad Ideas and Tips:
- Make Your Own Dressing… You can save 100’s of calories by making your own dressing!
- Prep Lunch Ahead… By prepping your lunch ahead of time (like the night before) you’re more likely to actually eat it, and to stay on plan.
- Add More Greens… Don’t be shy with the greens! And make sure to pick something nutritious. Iceberg has little to no nutrition… choose romaine, baby spinach, or field greens.
Shopping List for Chickpeas Recipes Salad:
- Baby spinach
- English cucumber
- Grape tomatoes
- Canned chickpeas
- Crumbled goat cheese or feta cheese
- Homemade Lemon Vinaigrette (or your favorite store-bought Vinaigrette)
Protein Add-ins:
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this recipe for garbanzo bean salad you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these vegetarian salad protein packed recipes can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make chickpea bean salad to take to work…
How to Make a Vegetarian Salad for Lunch
You can make this to enjoy at home, or to take to work.
We’ve been sure to making this an easy lunch salad recipe, with directions to make it to go, or to eat at home.
How to Make Vegetarian Salad Recipes with Garbanzo Beans:
- To a large bowl, or a lunch container add the spinach.
- Cut the cucumber into quarters lengthwise, then chop into small pieces. Add to the spinach.
- Halve or quarter (you choose) the tomatoes, and add to the spinach.
- Add the chickpeas and cheese to the salad.
- Either drizzle over the dressing, or add to a container to take with you in your lunch salad.
- Serve cold, this easy lunch salad is perfect for eating at work or at your desk.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best vegetarian salad with protein…
Healthy Recipe for Chickpea Salad
This vegetarian recipe for chickpea salad is simple and delicious… and packed full of protein.
But what if you want MORE protein? That’s where this helpful section comes in. We’ve supplied you with 3 protein options, and shared show many grams of protein you’ll be adding with each.
Work Lunch Salad Protein Add-ins:
- Shredded Chicken: adds 39.9g of protein
- Salmon Filet: adds 22g of protein
- Tofu: adds 21.5g of protein
Vegetarian Salad with Protein
Ingredients
- 2 cups baby spinach
- 1 small English cucumber
- 10 grape tomatoes
- ¼ cup canned chickpeas drained and rinsed
- ⅛ cup crumbled goat cheese or feta cheese
- ⅛ cup Homemade Lemon Vinaigrette or your favorite store-bought Vinaigrette
Protein Add-ins:
- 1 cup cooked and Shredded Chicken
- 1 4-ounce cooked Salmon Filet cut into large chunks
- 1 cup Baked Tofu
Instructions
- To a large bowl, or a lunch container add the spinach.
- Cut the cucumber into quarters lengthwise, then chop into small pieces. Add to the spinach.
- Halve or quarter (you choose) the tomatoes, and add to the spinach.
- Add the chickpeas and cheese to the salad.
- Either drizzle over the dressing, or add to a container to take with you in your lunch salad.
- Serve cold, this easy lunch salad is perfect for eating at work or at your desk.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Healthy Chickpea Salad Recipes
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