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Chopped Chickpea Salad
This salad is inspired by one of my favorite sandwiches of all time. The chopped chickpea sandwich at ‘wichcraft (which doesn’t appear on the menu anymore). It’s been at least six years since I’ve had one, but I vividly remember taking my first bite and contemplating for the first time in my life that I might actually be able to go vegetarian. The original had a bed of finely chopped marinated chickpeas with roasted bell peppers, parsley, and thin slices of pickled lemons. For my version, I’ve added a few more ingredients and chopped the chickpeas more coarsely so that it works as a salad as well as in a sandwich. I also use preserved Meyer lemons to add an earthy depth along with a bit of fresh zest for the brightness.
Chopping the chickpeas may seem a little counterintuitive, given the amount of trouble most people go through to make sure they don’t break up while cooking, but it actually makes a lot of sense. It’s hard enough eating chickpeas off a plate with a fork, but put them between two slices of bread, and it’s like keeping glass marbles on the hood of a Ferrari as it goes around a racetrack. Logistical issues aside, chopping the chickpeas exposes more surface area, which allows all the other ingredients to meld together better.
Chopped chickpeas marinated with preserved lemons, with roasted peppers, olives, parsley, celery and onions. Great as a salad, even better as a sandwich.

Servings 3 Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes Passive Time 24 hours

Ingredients
135 grams dried chick peas about 3/4 cup
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 carrot cut into sticks
1/2 large onion cut into wedges
1 rib celery cut in half
1 teaspoon salt

Dressing
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 sprig thyme - fresh minced
1/2 sprig rosemary - fresh minced
2 grams garlic grated 1 small clove
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon salt

Salad
1 red bell pepper - roasted
45 grams lemons - preserved (about 1/2 a lemon) chopped
45 grams olives - kalamata chopped
30 grams red onion 1/4 small red onion
30 grams celery diced about half a rib
13 grams flat leaf parsley minced (about 1/3 cup packed)
1 tablespoon sumac optional

Rinse the dried chickpeas well and soak them in plenty of water overnight.
The next day, drain and rinse the chickpeas.
In a pressure cooker over medium-high heat, add 1 tablespoon of oil, the carrot sticks, onion, and celery in a single layer and fry them undisturbed until browned on one side. Flip and brown the other side.
Add drained chickpeas and then slowly add enough water to cover the chickpeas by 1-inch. Add the salt and then seal the lid, setting the pressure to high.
Turn up the heat to high and let the cooker come up to full pressure (it should make a loud whistling noise). Set the timer for 15 minutes and then lower the heat so that you're getting a low steady whistle. If the whistling stops, just turn up the heat a bit.
When the timer is up, turn off the heat and let the pressure drop naturally.
When the pressure has dropped open the lid and discard the vegetables. Ideally you'll want to let the chickpeas cool in the liquid and soak overnight, but if you're in a hurry, you can cool the chickpeas quickly by putting the pot in a large bowl full of ice water for about 15 minutes.
To make the dressing whisk together the olive oil, red wine vinegar, thyme, rosemary, garlic, lemon zest and salt.
Roughly chop the chickpeas and add them to a bowl with the bell peppers, preserved lemons, olives, red onion, celery, parsley, sumac and dressing.
Mix everything together and serve as a sandwich or salad.
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