Waldorf Chickpea Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
This waldorf inspired vegan chickpea salad features apples, celery, and nuts, topped with a creamy, zesty avocado dressing. Perfect as an open faced sandwich or with greens as part of a big salad, it's a great weeknight meal or easy lunch.
Course Salad
Cuisine Vegan
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 10 minutesminutes
Servings 4people
Ingredients
2cupscooked chickpeasor well drained and rinsed canned
1applediced
1stalk of celerydiced
Optional: 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
Dressing
1large ripe avocado
Zest and juice of one lemonabout 1/4 cup juice
2tablespoonsolive oil
1small garlic cloveminced (optional)*
½teaspoonmaple syrup
½teaspoonDijon mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
Pinchof hot pepper flakesoptional*
Water to thin if needed
Instructions
Put all the stuff in a bowl. Cut the apple and celery to be about the same size as the chickpeas for a nice time.
Dressing
Throw all this stuff into a blender (I used a bullet blender) and mix until smooth. If it's really thick, add a splash of water. It doesn't need to be really thin. It'll still mix well with the salad if it isn't. This makes about double the amount of dressing you'll need, so either double the salad or save the dressing for a different thing.
Add the dressing to the salad and mix to coat. Serve cold.
Notes
1. If you hate raw garlic, don't add it. I love it.
2. Optional, but delicious.