This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is guaranteed to be on your meal rotation after the first bite you take! It’s gluten free, easily comes together, and bursting with flavor!
Finding salads that taste amazing, easy to make, great for meal prep and physically and mentally nourishing are hard to find. Until this Mediterranean Chickpea Salad.
The problem with many salads is that because they contain lettuce, they aren’t a great meal prep option. This salad solves that problem by giving you all the amazing textures and tastes of salads that you love, without the need for leafy greens.
The solution therefore gives you an incredibly delicious salad that’s perfect to let marinade and come together for an ultimate meal prep salad option.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy – While there are three recipes needed to make the full salad, all the steps are so easy!
- Meal Prep – This salad is good in the fridge for up to 5 days, making it a great meal prep option
- Versatile – You can easily swap out ingredients for things you don’t like or don’t have on hand and still make this a delicious salad.
🥘Recipe Ingredients
Gather your ingredients!
Vegan Feta
The vegan feta contains white miso, olive oil, nutritional yeast, garlic, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic powder, Italian seasoning and tofu.
It’s tangy and bold and really delicious.
Substitute: You can try making this with pumfu (pumpkin seed tofu) or chickpea tofu but note that we haven’t tried it ourselves.
Lemon Vinaigrette
The lemon vinaigrette has lemon juice, zest, red wine vinegar, garlic, dijon, salt, pepper, oil, and dried oregano.
Substitute: You can also use a store bought vinaigrette if you’d prefer not to make.
Chickpeas
Our choice of protein for this dish is chickpeas. It adds a nice balance of texture and flavor to the other ingredients.
Substitute: You could do other beans like white or butter beans, or something like lentils as well.
Vegetables (and Fruit!)
We’re choosing to add cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, onions and blueberries.
Substitute: While we personally love this combination, feel free to switch up the ingredients that you love or have on hand.
See my recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Recipe FAQs:
There is soy used in the form of tofu for the vegan feta. You could swap this out with pumfu (pumpkin seed tofu) or chickpea tofu. It is important to note that we haven’t personally tried this method.
There is also miso which is a soybean paste. We would substitute that with coconut aminos, soy free soy sauce, tamari, or tahini sauce depending on your allergens. There are no other Top 9 allergens.
Store in a tightly sealed container in the fridge until ready to eat. It is good for 5 days when stored properly.
The salad dressing can be, but we don’t recommend freezing the salad.
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Easy Loaded Mediterranean Salad
This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is guaranteed to be on your meal rotation after the first bite you take! It’s gluten free, easily comes together, and bursting with flavor!
Servings: 4 servings
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Ingredients
Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing
Instructions
For the Vegan Feta
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Start by making the marinade for the vegan feta by adding everything but the tofu into a bowl or container. Whisk together.
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Add the cubed tofu to a dish with a lid. Pour marinade over it, gently toss together, cover and place in fridge overnight or up to 24-48 hours before using.
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