Asian Chickpea Chopped Salad

This Asian Chickpea Chopped Salad is filled with delicious vegetables and topped with a creamy cashew butter and ginger dressing! It’s a delicious, nutritious, and refreshing salad!

I got a comment on my Greenest Chopped Salad recipe that there were just way too many ingredients in it. But the thing is, I love packing my salads with tons of ingredients! I say the more vegetables I can eat in a single serving, the better. 🙂

So, if you prefer a simple salad, this salad probably isn’t for you, but hopefully you’re like me and love lots of veggies!

This Asian Chickpea Chopped Salad is loaded with veggies and topped with a creamy cashew butter-based dressing. Not only do I love veggie-filled salads, but I also love chopped salads. When everything in your salad is chopped into small pieces of the same size, you get a little of everything in each bite, and it’s much better that way.

Asian Chopped Salad Recipe Ingredients

• Veggies – I used a mix of romaine lettuce and power greens, cucumber, carrots, red pepper, sugar snap peas, purple cabbage, and green onion.
• Chickpeas
• Dressing – I can get pretty lazy when it comes to salad dressing and usually use a squeeze of lemon, a drizzle of olive oil, and liquid aminos. Still, I wanted to do something a little more special for this Asian Chickpea Chopped Salad. This ginger cashew butter dressing is still really easy, but it’s incredibly flavorful and might be my favorite part of this salad.  The dressing calls for cashew or peanut butter, orange juice and zest, tamari or soy sauce, pure maple syrup, rice wine vinegar, fresh ginger, and minced or grated garlic.

How To Make This Chickpea Chopped Salad

1. Add the chopped greens to a large bowl and top with chickpeas and all the chopped vegetables.
2. Add all dressing ingredients to a jar or small bowl and mix until combined.
3. Dress the entire salad at once or dress each individual serving with the desired amount of dressing. This recipe makes about 4 large servings.

Recipe Tips and Thoughts

• A while ago, I bought a special salad chopper bowl from Amazon, but to be honest, I still prefer to do all the chopping myself. I guess I’m just old-fashioned like that. 🙂 Chop yours however you like!
• Lately, I’ve been making a huge bowl of chopped salad at the beginning of the week and eating it for lunch every day. It keeps lunches easy and healthy!
• I recommend storing it in the fridge without the dressing to avoid sogginess. 

Have a question about this recipe? Ask me in the comments, and I’ll get back to you ASAP.

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Asian Chickpea Chopped Salad

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• Author: She Likes Food
• Total Time: 20 minutes
• Yield: 4 1x

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This Asian Chickpea Chopped Salad is filled with lots of healthy vegetables, chickpeas and topped off with a creamy cashew butter based dressing!

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Ingredients

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• 6 cups chopped salad greens, I used a mix of romaine lettuce and power greens
• 2 cups cooked chickpeas
• 1 cup chopped cucumber
• 1 cup chopped carrots
• 1 cup chopped red pepper
• 1 cup chopped sugar snap peas
• 1 cup chopped purple cabbage
• 1/3 cup thinly diced green onion

Dressing:

• 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon cashew butter, or peanut butter
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1/2 teaspoon orange zest
• 2 teaspoons tamari, or soy sauce (I like to use low sodium)
• 1 teaspoon pure maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
• 1 small clove garlic, minced or grated

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Instructions

1. Add the chopped greens to a large bowl and top with chickpeas and all the chopped vegetables.
2. Add all dressing ingredients to a jar, or small bowl, and mix until combined.
3. You can either dress the entire salad at once or dress each individual serving with desired amount of dressing.  This recipe makes about 4 large servings.

• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins
• Category: Salad, Vegan, Gluten Free

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