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Healthy Tomato, Basil and Chickpea Salad – Vegan and Gluten-Free

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Last updated on June 10th, 2020 at 01:08 pm

Need a quick and fresh healthy salad recipe? Try this easy tomato, basil and chickpea salad for lunch or share at your dinner table. It’s ready in about 10 minutes and all you need to do is some chopping and working a can of chickpeas.

Super fresh and healthy tomato basil and chickpea salad - perfect summer salad to make!


Healthy Tomato, Basil Chickpea Salad

We’re looking at this gorgeous tomato and chickpea salad and we’re all thinking the same. What’s that carrot doing in there?

Well my sister made this light, refreshing and satisfying salad for lunch last week and may I say: it was amazing. Perfect on its own for lunch, also as a side and you can have it for dinner as well. It’s vegan, gluten-free and loaded with antioxidants.

As with most recipes at Beauty Bites you can make this salad in almost no time. I know we all don’t like to cook for hours when we’re hungry and busy. This is just another way to use my all-time favorite combination of chickpeas, basil and tomatoes. Add some sesame seeds and lots of onions and you’ll be happy for the rest of the week.

Super fresh and healthy tomato basil and chickpea salad - perfect summer salad to make!


Unusual Ingredients

Let’s get back to the carrot story. We had a whole bag of carrots and we needed to use them asap or let them die moldy in a few days. And thus one of them was chopped brutally and made it into the salad. There – mystery of the carrot solved. If you don’t like the carrot in the salad – just leave it out.

But be warned that carrots besides being good for your eyes and making your vision super clear also whiten your teeth when you chew them. And as if that wasn’t enough – because they contain lots of beta-carotene they give your skin a nice orange glow (you’d need to you eat a ton of them to develop a completely safe condition called carotenemia for that). Isn’t that the dream of the whole Jersey Shore cast?

Super fresh and healthy tomato basil and chickpea salad - perfect summer salad to make!

The only other unusual ingredient beside that carrot are the nigella seeds. They make everything so pretty. And they taste awesome, although I needed some time to get used to them. It’s like with cilantro – at first, I didn’t really like it, but once I started eating it more regularly, I’m mesmerized by its smell and want to put it in everything I make.

In the past the only time I had nigella seeds was on flatbread. Warm delicious flatbread. Mmmm. Stop it. I had no idea what those tiny black things were. I thought it was dirt or just burnt sesame seeds that tasted weird. Turns out they’re nigella seeds aka black cumin. I did not like cumin as well.

People change, I’m telling you.

And just like cumin nigella seeds do have some extra health benefits. A lot of them. I think it can even compete with my friend garlic in that. Nigella is considered to be anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, antioxidant, protect against cancer and heart disease…but it’s not a health food competition.

If you’re interested in anti-inflammatory foods that will make you feel great and look beautiful, I’ve written a post about 5 other awesome anti-inflammatory foods that you can check out here.

Let’s take a look at the health and beauty benefits of this lovely salad.

Super fresh and healthy tomato basil and chickpea salad - perfect summer salad to make!


Health and Beauty Benefits

As you can imagine this salad is not just great for your taste buds, it’s also super healthy because it’s bursting with carotenoids (thank you red pepper, tomatoes, and carrot!), vitamin C (all veggies), E (sesame oil, sesame seeds), detoxifying phytochemicals from onions, and thanks to sesame seeds – lots of calcium.

We need all these are nutrients during summer, because they protect us from the free radicals caused by higher sun exposure.

If we don’t stop them, those free radicals can do with us whatever they want (<- said in a very paranoid way). These free radicals cause wrinkles & skin cancer, make us age with the speed of light and cause various health issues (to say the least) like cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

So by incorporating more salads like this one and more fruits and vegetables in general into our diets, we can delay aging and prevent disease.

Ok, now that you’re done and super motivated to eat tomatoes, let’s make the recipe!

Yield: 2

Healthy Tomato, Basil and Chickpea Salad Recipe

Super fresh and healthy tomato basil and chickpea salad - perfect summer salad to make!

Healthy tomato, basil, chickpea salad! Perfect for summer and clean eating! This healthy summer salad is full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and fiber and it's delicious. Great option for a quick lunch, an easy dinner or a vegetable side dish!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 can chickpeas (400g)
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds
  • 1 small red pepper
  • ½ cup cilantro (chopped)
  • 10 basil leaves
  • 1 tbsp sesame oil / olive oil
  • 2 spring onions
  • 1 normal onion (small)
  • 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tsp nigella seeds (optional)
  • 2 big tomatoes
  • 1 carrot (optional)
  • salt to taste

Instructions

  1. Rinse and drain chickpeas and place in a large salad bowl.
  2. Chop pepper, cilantro, onions, tomatoes, carrots. Add to chickpeas in the salad bowl.
  3. Add sesame oil (olive oil works as well) and balsamic vinegar. Mix everything and add salt if needed.
  4. Garnish with basil, sesame seeds, nigella seeds.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

2

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 416Total Fat: 21gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 630mgCarbohydrates: 48gFiber: 13gSugar: 15gProtein: 13g
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Cuisine: Mediterranean / Category: Salads

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  1. April J Harris says

    1st August 2016 at 7:55 am

    Looks wonderful! What a beautiful, healthy and delicious salad!

    Reply
    • Stella says

      2nd August 2016 at 12:42 pm

      Thank you very much for your lovely comment!

      Reply
  2. Ali says

    31st August 2016 at 9:11 am

    I love the look of this salad. Such a refreshing change. I too am lucky to have a glut of fresh tomatoes this year, so will make this for the family at the week end. Thanks for the inspiration …….❤️

    Reply
    • Stella says

      1st September 2016 at 11:13 pm

      Thank you, Ali! Sounds like a great plan 🙂

      As I said – I wasn’t a big fan of the carrot in there, but you can add whatever you have to this salad. It’s super easy and I’ve already tried it with some avocado, rocket, spinach, cucumbers, or even more basil – all these work perfectly. Hope you like it!

      Reply
  3. Sam Jones says

    17th November 2016 at 5:55 pm

    So many vegan recipes to choose from. Healthy, delicious and looks very appetizing! Can’t wait to try all of them! Cheers!!

    Reply
    • Stella says

      23rd November 2016 at 10:19 am

      Thank you, Sam! Hope you like them 🙂

      Reply
  4. Grandma says

    18th February 2017 at 5:31 am

    Can I make this a day before l need it.? Want to bring it to work for a farewell party.

    Reply
    • Stella says

      19th February 2017 at 5:42 pm

      I wouldn’t pre-make the whole salad a day before, because most of the ingredients are fresh and taste better when they’re fresh. I have tried a few salads with tomatoes that were a day old and they were horrible even though they were originally very delicious.

      However if you have 5 minutes in the morning, to cube the tomatoes (and maybe chop some onion, which we all love to do first thing in the morning ;)), you could prepare everything else in the evening:
      Rinse and drain chickpeas and place in an airtight container. Then wash and chop all vegetables and herbs. Store vegetables and herbs separately, in airtight containers in the fridge (should be fine, although onion might smell, so if you have time – chop in the morning). Measure out the seeds. Wash tomatoes. It’s very important to make sure the vegetables and herbs you washed are packed in the fridge without water – otherwise could spoil.

      In the morning cut the tomatoes and combine everything, add salt, olive oil and vinegar (not the evening before), mix.
      Have fun at the farewell party!

      Reply
  5. Rhonda says

    15th May 2017 at 1:38 pm

    I made this last week and, good lord, it is delicious! Definitely a keeper.

    Reply
    • Stella says

      15th May 2017 at 3:05 pm

      Thanks Rhonda, glad you enjoyed the salad!

      Reply
  6. Anna says

    3rd June 2017 at 1:36 am

    Yummy!!! Just made this very fresh and delist. Thank you 🙂

    Reply
    • Stella says

      5th June 2017 at 9:07 pm

      Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to give me your feedback 🙂

      Reply
  7. Phirdhoz says

    23rd August 2017 at 6:40 pm

    how many servings does this make approx.??

    Reply
    • Stella says

      23rd August 2017 at 6:47 pm

      It’s about 2-3 servings, depends whether you have something with it

      Reply
  8. georgie @ georgieeats says

    24th July 2018 at 9:46 am

    Looks UH-mazing!!! I need to try these ASAP… Pinned!

    Reply
  9. Suzanne says

    18th June 2019 at 8:36 pm

    This looks so good! What else can I use nigella seeds for?

    Reply
  10. Vanessa says

    18th June 2019 at 8:37 pm

    Thanks for sharing! Does it keep long?

    Reply
    • Stella says

      20th June 2019 at 3:29 pm

      Unfortunately, with so many tomatoes it doesn’t keep well

      Reply

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    […] HEALTHY TOMATOES, BASIL AND CHICKPEA SALAD, VEGAN AND GLUTEN-FREE – Beauty Bites – Recipes, Health, …. We’re looking at this gorgeous tomatoes and chickpea salad and we’re all thinking the same. What’s that carrot doing in there? Well my sister made this light, refreshing and satisfying salad for lunch last week and may I say: it was amazing. Perfect on its own as a lunch, also as a side and you can have it as dinner as well. It’s vegan, gluten-free and loaded with antioxidants. As with most recipes at Beauty Bites you can make this salad in almost no time. I know we all don’t like to cook for hours when we’re hungry and busy. This is just another way to use my all-time favorite combination of chickpeas, basil and tomatoes. Let’s get back to the carrot story. But be warned that carrots besides being good for your eyes and making your vision super clear also whiten your teeth when you chew them. […]

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