Chickpea Avocado Salad with Feta Cheese

Chickpea Avocado Salad with Feta is the perfect make-ahead salad. Loaded with fresh ingredients like avocado, cucumber, tomatoes, sweet peppers, red onion, and vibrant flavors, this salad is an excellent side dish or weekly meal prep staple.

5 Reasons You’ll Love This Salad:

• It’s loaded with vibrant fresh flavors!
• It actually fills you up – satisfying!
• It’s easy to make!
• Great for meal-prep – stores well!
• Uses healthy ingredients!

Salads like this one and my Greek Cucumber Salad are easy to whip up and provide enough food for lunch all week. If I make two batches, both my husband and I can easily enjoy a flavorful and healthy lunch all week.

Ingredients

To make this Chickpea Avocado Salad, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• 8 mini rainbow peppers (or 2 bell peppers) – seeded/diced
• 1-pint of cherry tomatoes
• 1 ripe avocado – pitted and diced
• 2 (15-ounce) cans of chickpeas
• 1 large cucumber – diced
• 1 whole cubanelle pepper – seeded/diced
• 2 tablespoons Fresh Basil – chopped
• 1/2 cup red onion diced
• 8 ounces of feta cheese
• 2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 2 tablespoons Modena Balsamic Vinegar

How to Make

Like most salad recipes, making this one is easy. Just follow the steps below:

Prepare the Work Area and Veggies

1. Grab a clean large salad or mixing bowl, a knife, and a cutting board.
2. Wash all of the vegetables and dry them completely.

Chop the Veggies

1. Start by slicing open the sweet peppers and remove their seeds. Dice them into small pieces. Add them to the bowl.
2. Slice the avocado in half, remove the pit, and scoop out its insides.
3. Dice the avocado and add it to the bowl.
4. Dice the cucumber into bite-size pieces. Add it to the bowl.
5. Add the pint of cherry tomatoes to the bowl. You can slice each tomato in half if you like them smaller.
6. Dice 1 red onion into small pieces and add it to the bowl.
7. Slice the Cubanole pepper in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds and membrane.
8. Dice the Cubanole pepper and add it to the bowl.
9. Collect about 10 fresh Basil leaves and chop them into strips. Add them to the bowl.
10. Toss or stir the veggies to mix them evenly in the bowl.

Add the Chickpeas and Feta Cheese

1. Open the can(s) of chickpeas with a can opener.
2. Drain them and add the drained chickpeas to the bowl of chopped veggies.
3. If you purchased a block of Feta cheese, crumble it into small pieces. If you purchased Feta that’s already crumbled, you can skip this step.
4. Add the Feta cheese to the bowl.
5. Toss or stir the salad to mix the ingredients evenly in the bowl.

Add Dressing and Stir

1. Combine the Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar into a glass bowl.
2. Drizzle the dressing onto the salad.
3. Toss or stir the salad in order to coat the ingredients evenly with dressing.

Printable Recipe

Get the recipe for Chickpea Avocado Salad below: