Healthy chickpea and orange salad.

When the word salad is mentioned people often think, diet or boring and visualise iceberg lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes on a plate (no offence to any of the veggies mentioned) . Salad doesn’t have to be boring and with a little imagination can be a delicious nutritious and healthy meal.

I love this particular salad because I adore all the ingredients and I think they are an interesting but tasty combination. The chickpeas help one to stay full and satisfied for longer and the orange helps curb cravings for sweets later (hopefully).

What you need:

2/3 handfuls of spinach (I prefer baby spinach)
1 medium red onion
1 can of chickpeas
10/12 cherry tomatoes
One large orange or two small oranges
A thimble of olive oil
2 large tablespoons of orange juice

This salad is easy peasy and all you really need to do is to chop the fruit and vegetables into small pieces.  You should chop the onion quite small as it’s a very strong taste but everything else can be bite size, its prettier that way.

Put them all together in a bowl adding the chickpeas (which you will have rinsed thoroughly at that stage). You can dress the salad now but just adding the oil and the juice and mixing them about until they are entirely covered. Next you can mix in the spinach taking care not to bruise it too much.

All you need to do now is to sit down and eat it. YUM!