Avocado Chickpea Salad with Vegan Pesto
This is a pretty simple salad I just randomly threw together one day. I’d been seeing a lot of these smashed chickpea avocado sandwich spread recipes online and figured it would be just as delicious in a salad with some basil arugula pesto as the dressing. If salads aren’t your thing use a potato masher to squash the chickpeas down a little bit and just spread between two slices of bread for a quick lunch. I prefer this as a salad though – always overestimating how hungry I am and spending hours feeling stuffed afterwards – thanks to the filling aspect of both avocados and chickpeas.
Avocado Chickpea Pesto Salad
Start to Finish: 10-15 minutes
Serves: 2-4
Ingredients:
1 can chickpeas, rinses and drained
1 avocado, cubed
lemon juice
salt, pepper,
2 scallions, chopped
2 handfuls spring mix or arugula, sliced
4 tablespoons vegan basil arugula pesto (recipe below)
Directions:
1. Squeeze lemon juice over cubed avocado. Combine ingredients in a large bowl and enjoy (mash chickpeas beforehand if using this as sandwich filling).
Vegan Arugula Basil Pesto
Makes: 3/4-1 cup
Start to Finish: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
3.5 ounces basil (1 large box)
1/2 cup arugula
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup walnuts
3/4 teaspoon salt
pepper
2 cloves garlic
Directions:
1. In a food processor combine basil, garlic, walnuts, arugula, salt pepper. Start to process, pouring olive oil through feed chute. Process until smooth.
Avocado - Pesto 
Nice pictures!
It may have been simply thrown together, but there’s nothing simple about those flavors. It looks delicious! Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to try it.
Let me know what you think — or if you add different ingredients how they pair together!
Looks like there’s tons of flavor (and health benefits) in that bowl! Just what I’m looking for!
And so simple to throw together!
Avocado is a grand food to always add in the mix when the recipe permits. One of the major benefits I draw out of avos is their life sustaining properties. There is just no harm to having it as a daily dietary intake. Folate, Fatty acids, Oleic, help fight many illnesses including heart problems. High cholesterol can be significantly lowered within 5 to 7 days if avo is the main ingredient in your recipe.
There are so many avo tricks out there that are just worth trying. SAAGA – South African Avocado Growing Association – is an avocado company and they host hundreds of avo tuck-ins.
Avocados, Avocado, Avo
They are worth checking out. LIKE YOUR WORK AVOCADO PESTO!
Omfg….. I want this naooooo
next time you come over I’ll make you some!