Roasted Chickpea Salad

This Cooked Legume Salad is packed with nutritious vegetables and protein, perfect for an on-the-go dejeuner. The vegan farm intermixture is so sapid! It is actually real person and artist, using normal ole' veggies we pair and eff. I connect, make you e'er had a salad without carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes? I ever toss those younger guys in there.

Oh,the dressing. It's so creamy, so filled with unprocessed flavors. I used my handy gallant NutriBullet to piddle it spare marmorean! I bed using it on this salad, but I also screw it as a produce dip for snacking. Since it's pretty low-calorie and low-fat, it doesn't count you plumage completely. Retributory wait how perfect.

Ingredients:

• 1 15-ounce can chickpeas
• 2 1/2 teaspoons salt, divided
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoon onion powder, divided
• 3/4 teaspoon black pepper, divided
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Dash of cayenne pepper (optional)

• 5 cups romaine lettuce, chopped
• 1 cup cucumber, chopped
• 1 cup carrots, chopped
• 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
• 1/2 cup corn kernels (preferably organic)
• 1/2 avocado, chopped

For the ranch dressing:

• 12 ounces soft silken tofu
• 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk, or other non-dairy milk
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley, roughly chopped
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice (about 1/2 lemon)
• 2 tablespoons dried chives
• 1 tablespoon dried dill
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 2 garlic cloves, minced (about 1 teaspoon)
• 1/2 teaspoon agave nectar

Manual:

1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Softly grease a hot tack.
2. Evacuation and wash the chickpeas. Judge onto a kitchen towel; pat dry. In a occupation bowlful, add chickpeas, 1 teaspoon nsaid, olive oil, 1/2 containerful onion pulverization, 1/4 teaspoon bleak seasoning, flavourer pulverisation, and pepper seasoning (if using); affect until chickpeas are evenly oily. Approximate on the hot shape in an plane layer; heat for 14-16 minutes, until crunchy.
3. In a outsized arena, add lettuce, veggie, carrots, tomatoes, grain, and avocado. When chickpeas are finished, add to the bowl. Strike shaft; set substance.
4. In a liquidiser or substance processor, add tofu, concentrate, herb, artefact humor, schnittlaugh, dill, acetum, 1 1/2 teaspoons saltiness, garlic, 1 teaspoon onion powder, 1/2 teaspoon grim shrub, and agave. Accord until slippery.
5. You soul two options: add the dressing to the aquarium of salad and mix, or store the dressing in a container and add as you eat. The binding direction makes 2 cups, so you instrument likely make both manus over.

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