Chickpea Salad

This is super easy. There is no cooking involved. This salad makes a great side dish for pork chops or with chicken. It would also be ideal with a hanger or skirt steak.

Open two cans of chickpeas and drain them and then give them a little rinse. Combine the chickpeas in a bowl with a couple tablespoons of finely chopped red onion, one diced tomato, a couple tablespoons of chopped cilantro, one clove of garlic really finely minced or put through a garlic press and somewhere around a cup of frozen corn, defrosted. Make a dressing of one tablespoon of mayonnaise, the juice of one juicy lime and a tablespoon or so of vegetable oil (or canola, etc). Mix the dressing together and pour over the salad and toss together. Salt and pepper to taste.

If you don’t like mayonnaise you can skip it and up the oil a little. This salad works fine without the corn too, if you don’t have any on hand.