Roasted Chickpea Salad with Grapes and Feta
Meet my new favorite salad.
Roasted chickpeas, juicy red grapes, crunchy little wheat berries and bits of creamy feta, tossed in a scrumptious honey-lemon dressing. NOM.
Speaking of salad, it’s freakin’ hot here! 104°F to be exact.
All I want to do is eat light and tasty foods, slap my happy butt on a float and wade around in a cold pool. In that order, please and thank you.
The pool part is just a fantasy at this point {because I don’t have one, sad face} but I’m happy to say the salads are real life.
The inspiration for this particularly magnificent flavor profile came from Lindsay’s recipe: Honey Chicken Salad with Grapes and Feta. I’m sure all of you omnivore’s will be drooling all over that one buuuuttt we all know I don’t do chicken.
However, I do do chickpeas. Lightly dusted with salt and chili powder then roasted until slightly crunchy. Mmmm mmmm. Chicken may have met it’s match…
I’m trying to resist getting up to gorge on the leftovers right now so how about we change the topic real quick, mmkay?
Coco says thank you all for the well wishes on Friday! She is doing great and enjoying plenty of Frosty Paws while her stitches heal.
She also gave us a preview of what it will be like to have an infant by waking us up every three hours throughout the night and you guys, it is NOT going to be pretty. And by IT I mean me. Having to nudge Brandon to get up is hard work.
I hope you all had a restful weekend and that you were able to stay cool! Oh, and you should make this salad. You’ll love it, promise.
Ingredients
15 ounces cooked chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons high heat oil (I used sunflower oil)
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup wheat berries*
1 and 1/2 cup sliced red grapes
6 ounces feta cheese crumbles
6 green onions, diced
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
juice of 2 lemons
2 teaspoons honey
Instructions
- Start by placing the soaked and rinsed wheat berries in a pot with 2 cups of water then bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for 45-60 minutes. Once they are tender, drain and rinse them with cool water and then set aside in a large bowl.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400°F then toss the chickpeas in the high heat oil and sprinkle with chili powder and salt. Place them on a cookie sheet or baking dish and roast for 30 minutes. When chickpeas are done cooking, allow them to cool for about ten minutes and then toss them into the bowl with the wheat berries.
- Make the dressing by whisking together the olive oil, lemon juice and honey. Add the grapes, green onion, and feta to the large bowl then top with the dressing and stir until everything is evenly coated. Serve cold and enjoy!
Notes
*soak overnight or for at least 8 hours before cooking
beautiful! the chewy wheat berries and sweet grapes + tart feta sound mouth-watering!
This looks so good, Sarah! I’d totally devour it. Wheat berries are delicious and I haven’t had them in way too long. Happy to hear Coco is doing well!
I made this tonight but I subbed blue cheese for feta and added roasted broccoli. It was SO good! I hadn’t had wheat berries before and now I’m a fan. Even David (Mr. Meat Lover) enjoyed this “salad”. :) Thanks for sharing.
Yay! :) Roasted broccoli sounds like a delicious addition!
What a pretty and tasty-looking salad! I love wheat berries, but I always forget to buy them.
Glad Coco is doing well, I’m sure the puppy ice cream helped :-)
This is my kind of salad! I can’t get enough salty feta, and wheat berries are always a win. Love the roasted chickpeas instead of chicken! I’ll be making this for sure :)
I feel your pain about the heat! We had a high of 109 last week and 107 tomorrow, gross! We don’t have a pool either, but our neighbors do, and I keep hoping they will invite us over! I’m pretty much living on cold salads lately, too, and this one looks so delicious! I’ve never had anything like it before, but I have a feeling that once I try it, it will be my new favorite salad too! So glad Coco is doing well :)
This salad looks delicious! I’m loving the look of the red grapes with roasted chickpeas. This would be perfect for lunch today :D
Love love love this salad! This is so my kind of dish! And I really like that you have grapes in here … is it bad that I just finished lunch and now I wish I had this to eat right now? haha Hope you had a great weekend!
I’m sure this tastes amazing, but taste aside, this is a GORGEOUS salad. The grapes contrasted with the chickpeas is so summery and beautiful! Taste wise- I really don’t think you can possibly go wrong with grapes, feta, and chickpeas!
I’ve never tried wheat berries! This needs to change, stat! Also I’m going to crash your pool party. DYING.
Fantastic salad! I read some many good things about chickpeas, they are full of great nutrients. I love the combination of ingredients here. “Perfetto”!
This is my kind of salad! Seriously, everything I love in one bowl. Perfection. Hugs to Coco. XO
This looks amazing! Love the combination of geta and grapes. Yum!
Thanks Renee! It was really, really good!
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