Chickpea Salad Sandwich Recipe

This smashed chickpea salad sandwich recipe is healthy, satisfying, fresh, and delicious! A quick and easy light meal idea.

This chickpea sandwich is gooood. It’s not hard to make at all, but the flavor payoff is spot-on. So, if you’re looking for something a bit different, try this. I basically made a quick chickpea avocado salad with some spices, onion, lemon, and a bit of mayo and grainy mustard, then added it to bread with some fresh veggies. YUM.

The radish sprouts have a distinctive sharp flavor that goes really well in this sandwich. If you can’t find them, you could try watercress or alfalfa sprouts. I found them at Safeway, so I’m pretty sure they’re readily available in the US and here in Canada.

As always, use whatever veggies make your tastebuds happy. 🙂

This simple chickpea salad recipe definitely isn’t another boring sandwich. I make veggie sandwiches at home sometimes, and I find that I’m often hungry shortly after eating them. That’s probably because I usually don’t include any sort of protein. Chickpeas make these sandwiches wonderfully filling, so you won’t have that problem!

I know I’ll be making these again. And again.

Hope you’ll try this vegetarian chickpea salad sandwich!

Let me know in the comments below if you have.

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Chickpea Salad Sandwich Recipe

This smashed chickpea salad sandwich recipe is healthy, satisfying, fresh, and delicious! A quick and easy light meal idea.

Course Sandwich

Cuisine American

Keyword chickpea salad sandwich, smashed chickpea sandwich

Prep Time 15 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 2

Author Salt & Lavender

Ingredients

• 1 (19 fluid ounce) can chickpeas drained
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon red onion chopped finely
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/8 teaspoon smoked paprika
• Salt & pepper to taste
• 1 heaped tablespoon mayo or to taste
• 1 teaspoon grainy mustard (such as Maille Old Style mustard)
• 1 avocado chopped
• 4 slices bread toast if you wish
• Sliced tomato to taste
• Radish sprouts to taste
• Arugula to taste
• Lettuce (I used butter leaf) to taste

Instructions

1. Add the chickpeas to a medium bowl and coarsely mash them (I actually used my potato masher to do this). 
2. Add the lemon juice, red onion, cumin, smoked paprika, salt & pepper, mayo, grainy mustard, and avocado to the bowl. Mix it together gently.
3. Toast your bread if you wish. Add the chickpea salad, tomato, radish sprouts, lettuce, and arugula to each sandwich. Enjoy! 

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