Smashed Chickpea Salad - used in a sandwich
What you need!
1 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons pitted, halved and very thinly sliced black olives
1 tablespoon finely chopped red onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Zest and juice from half a lemon (if you've got one of those sad, juiceless lemons, use both sides for juice)
Couple good pinches of salt
A few grinds of black pepper
A few glugs of olive oil (the original is quite oily, like bread-soaking oily, I went a little lighter. Both ways are delicious)
Make it!
Mix everything but the olive oil in a small to midsize bowl. Very lightly smash the chickpea mixture with the back of a fork or a potato masher. You're not looking for a hummus-like puree but something closer to a coarse chop with a few smaller bits to hold it together. Add the glugs of olive oil, mix it lightly and enjoy.
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The chickpeas are a bit difficult to smash by hand so I threw in half the mixture into the Magic Bullet. It worked but the result was still a bit too chunky. Bits of chickpea would escape from my sandwich. Maybe running the entire thing through the Bullet would give it a better spread-like consistency.
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