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Chickpea & Charred Nectarine Salad with Tamari Harissa Dressing & Chives
This vibrant salad celebrates all the flavours we love. Sizzle nectarines till bursting with sweet juices. Toss full-of-fibre chickpeas with dukkah, a blend of nutty seeds and warm spices. Top it off with a punchy tamari, harissa and lime dressing.
Ready in 20
1/3 daily fibre
5 of 5 a day
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp tamari (Soya) (water, soybeans, salt, spirit vinegar)
- 1 handful of fresh chives
- 110g baby tomatoes
- 1 midi cucumber
- 1 little gem lettuce
- 1 unwaxed lime
- 1 tbsp maple syrup (maple syrup(100%))
- 1 tbsp harissa paste (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Diced Red Pepper, Red Pepper, Paprika Flakes, Garlic, Salt, Rose Petals, Ground Cumin, Ground Coriander, Black Pepper, Paprika Oleoresin, Crushed Chilies, Natural Flavouring Smoke, Oregano, Citric Acid, Parsley)
- 2 nectarine
- 2 tsp dukkah spice blend (buckwheat, pine kernel, coriander, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, cumin, oregano, paprika, sea salt)
- 230g chickpeas (Chickpeas, water, salt)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 438
Protein: 13g
Carbs: 25g
Fat: 23g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp tamari (use half) (Soya) (water, soybeans, salt, spirit vinegar)
- 1 tbsp maple syrup (use half) (maple syrup(100%))
- 1 tbsp harissa paste (use half) (Water, Rapeseed Oil, Diced Red Pepper, Red Pepper, Paprika Flakes, Garlic, Salt, Rose Petals, Ground Cumin, Ground Coriander, Black Pepper, Paprika Oleoresin, Crushed Chilies, Natural Flavouring Smoke, Oregano, Citric Acid, Parsley)
- 2 tsp dukkah spice blend (use half) (buckwheat, pine kernel, coriander, pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, cumin, oregano, paprika, sea salt)
- 230g chickpeas (use half) (Chickpeas, water, salt)
- 1 unwaxed lime (use half)
- 1 midi cucumber (use half)
- 1 little gem lettuce (use half)
- 2 nectarine
- 110g baby tomatoes (use half)
- 1 handful of fresh chives (use half)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 494
Protein: 15g
Carbs: 38g
Fat: 24g
Chickpea & Charred Nectarine Salad with Tamari Harissa Dressing & Chives
This vibrant salad celebrates all the flavours we love. Sizzle nectarines till bursting with sweet juices. Toss full-of-fibre chickpeas with dukkah, a blend of nutty seeds and warm spices. Top it off with a punchy tamari, harissa and lime dressing.
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Pull out a large frying pan, a griddle pan, a large bowl & a sieve
Chickpea time
- Drain and rinse the chickpeas
- Heat the large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium heat. Once hot, add the chickpeas and dukkah, cook for 5 mins, stirring occasionally, until turning golden. Season with salt
Char the necatines
- Meanwhile, halve and de-stone the nectarines, then cut into 4 wedges
- Heat the griddle pan with 1 tbsp oil on high heat. Once hot, add the nectarine wedges and cook for 1-2 mins on each side, until deep golden brown
Make the dressing
- In a large bowl, combine the harissa with the tamari, maple syrup, juice from the lime and a good pinch of salt
Toss the salad
- Trim and roughly chop the lettuce. Thinly slice the cucumber into 1/2cm half-moons. Halve the tomatoes
- Add all to the dressing bowl, along with the chickpeas. Toss together gently
- Roughly chop the chives
Plate up
- Share the salad between plates, topped with charred nectarines. Sprinkle over the chives
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