Grilled Caesar salad with crispy chickpeas
By Claire
About This Recipe
This vegetarian Caesar salad has a delicious Middle Eastern twist with a tahini dressing and crispy chickpeas.
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Instructions
ngredients
For the salad
- 400g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
- 1 lemon, zest only
- 4 Little Gem lettuces, sliced in half lengthways
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the dressing
- ½ garlic clove, grated
- 4 tbsp light tahini
- 2 tbsp Greek-style yoghurt
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1½ lemons, juice only
- 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- dash soy sauce or tamari
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
To serve
- 40g/1½oz vegetarian hard Parmesan-style cheese, grated
- small bunch parsley, leaves picked
- freshly ground black pepper
Method
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Preheat the oven to 240C/220C Fan/Gas 9. Heat a griddle pan over a high heat.
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Put the chickpeas in a roasting tin and coat in the rapeseed oil. Season with salt and pepper. Roast in the centre of the oven for 25 minutes, shaking now and again, until they are blistering and crisp and you hear them pop. Put the chickpeas on kitchen paper to drain and cover with the lemon zest.
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Meanwhile, griddle the Little Gem halves for a couple of minutes on each side, until chargrilled.
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To make the dressing, put all the ingredients in a food processor with 6 tablespoons of water and blend, until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
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Toss the lettuce in a few tablespoons of the dressing and arrange on a platter. Scatter over the chickpeas and the cheese. Serve with some more dressing, black pepper and a few parsley leaves.
Nutritional Information
chickpeas
rapeseed oil
lemon
Little Gem lettuces
black pepper
garlic
tahini
yoghurt
olive oil
lemons
Dijon mustard
soy sauce
Parmesan
parsley
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Grilled Caesar salad with crispy chickpeas