Summertime is a great time for salads. No need to do any cooking. This cold salad is an example of a quick and easy dish you can make for your weeknight meal. This spiral cucumber carrot chickpea salad recipe uses a spiralizer. If you do not have one, you can buy these veggies already spiralized at your nearest grocery store. The title of this recipe is a mouthful, but boy, is it yummy and easy to make. Feel free to check out our other salad recipes here.
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- How to spiralize English cucumbers?
- How to use a peeler to make carrot ribbons?
- Summertime Cucumber Carrot Chickpea Asian Salad Reveal:
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Asian Spiral Cucumber Carrot Chickpea Salad Simple Ingredients:
1 Red Onion thinly sliced
One tablespoon Sugar
1 ½ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Mustard Seed
½ cup Red Wine Vinegar
2 seedless Cucumbers, chilled and spira
lized
2 large Carrots, peel the skin and keep peeling to create think strips
1 can of Chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoon Seasoned Rice Vinegar
1 tablespoon Lemon juice
1 teaspoon Sesame Oil
Salt and Pepper to taste
Asian Spiral Cucumber Carrot Chickpea Salad Quick Instructions:
To make the pickled onion: 1 tablespoon sugar, One and one half teaspoon Salt, 1 teaspoon Mustard Seed, and ½ cup Red Wine Vinegar in a small saucepan. Stir and heat until sugar and salt dissolve. Remove from heat and add Onion (red) thinly sliced. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
How to spiralize English cucumbers?
Meanwhile, use the spiralizer
and create cucumbers into spirals. Then, put on a few paper towels and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Let sit for 20 minutes.
How to use a peeler to make carrot ribbons?
Use the peeler of the skin on the carrots. Then, continue to peel the carrot to make think ribbon-like carrot shapes. Put aside.
In a small bowl, whisk (Affiliate Link) 2 tablespoon Seasoned Rice Vinegar, 1 tablespoon Lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon Sesame Oil, salt, and pepper to taste.
After the cucumber is drained, squeeze and place in the bowl with the carrots, pickled red onion, and chickpeas. Drizzle and toss the mixture with the salad dressing.
Serve immediately.
Summertime Cucumber Carrot Chickpea Asian Salad Reveal:
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Asian Spiral Cucumber Carrot Chickpea Salad Recipe Card
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 4
Description
You will need a Spiralizer to make this recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 Onion (red) thinly sliced
- 1 TBSP Sugar
- 1 ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Mustard Seed
- ½ cup Red Wine Vinegar
- 2 seedless Cucumbers, chilled and spiralized
- 2 large Carrots, peel the skin, and keep peeling to create think strips
- 1 can of Chickpeas, rinsed and drained
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 TBSP Seasoned Rice Vinegar
- 1 TBSP Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Sesame Oil
- Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
- To make the pickled onion: 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 ½ teaspoon Salt, 1 teaspoon Mustard Seed, ½ cup Red Wine Vinegar in a small saucepan. Stir and heat until sugar and salt dissolve. Remove from heat. And add Onion (red) thinly sliced. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, use the spiralizer and create cucumbers into spirals. Then, put on a few paper towels and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt. Let sit for 20 minutes.
- Use the peeler of the skin on the carrots. Then, continue to peel the carrot to make think ribbon-like carrot shapes. Put aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk (Affiliate Link) 2 tablespoon Seasoned Rice Vinegar, 1 tablespoon Lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon Sesame Oil, salt, and pepper to taste.
- After the cucumber is drained, squeeze and place it in the bowl with the carrots, pickled red onion, and chickpeas. Drizzle and toss the mixture with the salad dressing.
- Serve immediately.
- Prep Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 5 minutes
- Category: salad
- Method: no cook
- Cuisine: Asian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 172.61 kcal
- Sugar: 11.37 g
- Sodium: 763.06 mg
- Fat: 3.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.0 g
- Carbohydrates: 30.67 g
- Fiber: 6.62 g
- Protein: 6.39 g
- Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
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Jeri says
Your Asian Spiral Cucumber Carrot Chickpea Salad looks absolutely delicious. It's so true that once the weather warms up even in the slightest, the salad cravings start to come on. I'm pinning this one and I know it will make an appearance in one of the meals I'll soon be serving out on my patio.