Vegetarian Grinder Salad

Step 1

Start by preparing your chickpeas.  Drain and rinse your chickpeas and then add them to a medium sized pan over medium heat with a couple teaspoons of oil.  Cook chickpeas for a few minutes, until starting to brown, and then add in your seasonings.  Mix together to make sure all the chickpeas are coated and cook for another 1-2 minutes.  Remove from heat and set aside.

Step 2

Make the dressing: add all dressing ingredients to a bowl, or jar, and mix until everything is combined.  Taste and season with salt and pepper if needed.

Step 3

Prepare your lettuce next.  I wanted this to be more of a chopped salad, so I used an entire head of iceberg lettuce and chopped it into bite size pieces.  Add the iceberg lettuce to a large bowl.

Step 4

Assemble your salad.  To the top of the iceberg lettuce, add your chickpeas and all the remaining salad ingredients.  I sectioned off everything so you could get a good look at all the individual ingredients but you can also just throw everything into the bowl on top of each other.

Step 5

Pour over desired amount of dressing and enjoy!