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Cucumber and Chickpea Salad

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 20 mins
Total Time 50 mins
Course Salad
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 4)

Ingredients

For the salad:

  • 1 can chickpeas, approx. 400 g
  • 400 g carrot (s)
  • 1 cucumber (s)
  • 1 bunch mint
  • 1 bunch dill
  • 100 g cranberries, dried
  • 100 g peanuts, salted and roasted

For the dressing:

  • 5 tablespoon olive oil
  • 6 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon honey, more liquid
  • salt and pepper
  • 0.25 teaspoon ¼ coriander powder
Cucumber and Chickpea Salad
Cucumber and Chickpea Salad

Instructions

  1. Drain the chickpeas. Peel the carrots and dice them very finely. Wash the cucumber, cut it in half lengthways and scrape out the stones. Halve the cucumber halves lengthways again and cut into thin slices. Wash the herbs. Roughly chop the dill and pluck the mint leaves from the stems. Roughly chop the peanuts and cranberries.
  2. For the dressing, mix together lemon juice, honey, salt, pepper and coriander. Beat in the oil vigorously. Mix the dressing with the prepared salad ingredients and let the salad steep for 30 minutes.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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