Warm Chickpea Salad With Pickled Turnips

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This is simply a lukewarm crockery featuring an antithetic ingredient: pickled turnips. The crockery has each the flavors of a Mediterranean favourite -- a falafel sandwich -- but is served connected a platter arranged similar a crockery Nicoise. Everyone tin assistance themselves to make the close premix that suits their palates. Chopping each the ingredients takes a spot of time; deliberation of the process similar coating a masterpiece of colors and textures.

Pickled turnips tin beryllium purchased astatine Mediterranean market stores, arsenic tin crushed sumac.

Adapted from Cynthia A. Brown, adjunct gardener astatine Green Spring Gardens successful Alexandria.

Ingredients

For the vinaigrette

Leaves from 1/2 ample clump flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped (1 cup)
3 tablespoons reddish vino vinegar
1 ample clove garlic
1/2 cupful positive 2 tablespoons olive oil

For the salad

3 tablespoons olive oil
1 spoon crushed cumin
1 spoon crushed turmeric
1 spoon full coriander seeds, crushed
2 mean cloves garlic, minced
14 ounces canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
3 carrots, peeled and chopped into 1/4-inch heavy matchsticks
4 to 6 mint leaves, minced (2 tablespoons)
1 spoon toasted sesame seeds (see NOTE)
3 Roma tomatoes, coarsely chopped
2 cucumbers, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 tiny reddish onion, chopped into bladed slices
1 cupful pickled turnips (if not already chopped into julienne, chopped into 1/4-inch-thick matchsticks; spot headnote)
1 cupful crumbled feta cheese
4 pieces pita bread, chopped into quarters and toasted
1 cupful Greek-style plain nonfat yogurt
Juice from 1/2 oregon 1 citrus (2 tablespoons)
Ground sumac (see headnote)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (with each of the vinaigrette)

Calories
614
Fat
37 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
52 g
Sodium
624 mg
Cholesterol
22 mg
Protein
19 g
Fiber
9 g
Sugar
10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Cynthia A. Brown, adjunct gardener astatine Green Spring Gardens successful Alexandria.

Tested by Cynthia A. Brown.

Published March 7, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026