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Chopped Salad

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chopped salad

Yup, I made another healthy dish. Look at me: Eating my veggies. Well, it’s not too hard to eat your veggies when it’s in the form of a yummy salad, full of garbanzo beans, salami, smoked cheese and peppery arugula. Yummy!

My love of Food Network is well-known. My two favorite, non-cooking shows are Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and The Best Thing I Ever Ate. It would be fair to say that I’m a bit obsessed with them. In fact, the inspiration for this salad came from my TV viewing, obvious proof that watching TV can be good for you.

I didn’t have a recipe for this salad but only a few notes about what was in it, so I adapted it to fit my tastes. The salami and smoked cheese add a great flavor component, but obviously raise the calorie and fat count. The good thing about a salad is you can choose how much to add. If you’re counting calories, eliminate or reduce the amount of salami and cheese and add extra veggies. So see, it really is a healthy salad!

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Chopped Salad with Garbanzo Beans, Salami & Cheese

An original Eat Laugh Purr recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1 (15.5 oz) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 1/2 cup to 1 cup Italian salami, diced
  • 1/2 cup to 1 cup smoked gouda (mozzarella or fontina), diced
  • 1 shallot, finely diced
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
  • 8 cups arugula or your favorite lettuce

Instructions:

  1. In a medium bowl, whisk together olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper, sugar and dried oregano.
  2. Add garbanzo beans, garlic and shallots. Stir and refrigerate for 2 hours or up to 24 hours.
  3. When ready to serve, add the salami, tomatoes and cheese to the garbanzo mixture. Serve over arugula or your favorite lettuce mix.

Serves 6 small salads

Enjoy!

Tanya

By day, Tanya helps her clients create meaningful connections with their target audience through her modern and elegant website designs. Utilizing her passion for the written word, she crafts entertaining and informative articles on finance, food and health and beauty as a freelance writer. By night, she is a blogger, consumer of too much TV and an overindulgent Cat Mama to Max. To be fair, she spoils Max 24/7.

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