Spicy Indian Chickpeas Salad

5 from 1 vote

Spicy Indian Chickpea Salad is a vibrant and refreshing dish made with cooked chickpeas, cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions, spiced with green chilies, cumin, and chaat masala. This vegan and gluten-free salad is perfect for a healthy and flavorful side dish.

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 25

Total Time 30

Servings

Author Sravanthi Chanda

Ingredients

For cooking chickpeas in an Instant pot

1 cup dried chickpeas Or use 3 cups cooked chickpeas
3 cups water
½ teaspoon salt

Other salad ingredients

1 cup cucumber chopped
½ cup tomato chopped
⅓ cup onion chopped
¼ cup cilantro leaves chopped
¼ cup walnuts
1-2 tablespoon sesame seeds
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small green chili
Salt to taste

Optional spices

½ teaspoon ground cumin
½ teaspoon chaat masala or dried raw mango powder
¼ teaspoon garam masala powder for more spicy, use ½ tsp

Instructions

Cook the Chickpeas

Soak the chickpeas for 8 hours or overnight.
Discard the water from soaked chickpeas and wash them a couple of times.
Add soaked and rinsed chickpeas, water and salt to the Instant pot inner pot.
Close the Instant pot with its lid and seal the vent.
Start the Instant pot using manual or pressure cook mode and cook them for 10 minutes on HIGH pressure.
Once the Instant pot finishes cooking, wait for 10 minutes and do a manual pressure release.
Strain the chickpeas and keep them aside. And reserve the water. You can use this water in soups and curries.

Prep the veggies

Chop cucumber, tomatoes, and onions. I chopped them finely, but you can even slice them.
If using other veggies that have to be cooked before, like potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, cook them and keep them aside.

Make the salad

Take a mixing bowl and add cooked chickpeas.
To this bowl, add chopped veggies - cucumber, tomatoes, red onion. Also, add finely chopped green chili, cilantro leaves, lemon juice, olive oil, sesame seeds, chopped walnuts, salt, and spices (ground cumin, chaat masala, garam masala powder)
Mix everything well, and the delicious and spicy Indian chickpeas salad is ready to serve.

Notes

Nutrition values are my rough estimates. Please feel free to use your calculator if you rely on them for your diet.

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