Warm Chickpea Feta Salad with Fire Roasted Tomatoes

This easy chickpea feta salad is the perfect weeknight dinner that's ready in around 20 minutes. It stars protein-packed chickpeas tossed in spices, and features cherry tomatoes and slabs of feta cheese roasted under the broiler, and briny olives.

This delicious salad can be served as a vegetarian main dish or a great side dish for the meat eaters at the table.

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• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 🧅 Main Ingredients + Notes
• 🔪 Recommended Equipment
• 📝 Instructions Overview
• 🎯 Why This Recipe Works
• ⏰ Tips to Simplify and Save Time
• 💡Ideas for Possible Variations
• 🥬 Make it Vegan
• Warm Chickpea Feta Salad with Fire Roasted Tomatoes

Hearty chickpeas make some of the best dinner, IMO. If I have a stash of cooked chickpeas in the refrigerator or freezer, or a can of chickpeas in my pantry, I'm seriously only minutes away from sitting down to a great dinner.

This chickpea curry with sweet potatoes is a perfect example. Or this pan-fried chickpea salad with curried yogurt. And if I want to keep it super simple, I can whip up a chickpea avocado toast or this 15-Minute Mediterranean vegan chickpea salad with arugula.

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

• This easy chickpea salad is a sheet pan dinner, so there's minimal clean up.
• Super easy and fast meal prep.
• If you're using canned chickpeas, or you've already cooked them from dried, this dinner is ready in around 20 minutes.
• Flavor packed.
• High in fiber to make you feel full longer.

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📝 Instructions Overview

Detailed instructions for making this warm chickpea feta salad recipe are in the recipe card below, but here's an overview!

Step 1

Cook the chickpeas. You can use canned chickpeas, but if you want to cook your own from dried, do this first. This post outlines four ways to cook chickpeas from dried, and shared tips for success.

Step 2

Fire roast the tomatoes. Fire roast the tomatoes. It's so easy to make your own fire roasted tomatoes, and I recommend using cherry tomatoes for this recipe. If you want to use large tomatoes, slice 2 - 3 tomatoes into ¾" slices, lightly oil, salt and pepper, and fire roast under the broiler.

Step 3

Roast the chickpeas and feta. Add the cooked chickpeas to the baking sheet with the fire roasted tomatoes, and tuck in the little slabs of feta cheese. Slide under the broiler until the chickpeas are lightly toasted and the feta cheese is soft and toasted on its edges.

Step 4

Finish. Add the olives, arugula, and sherry wine vinegar. Lightly toss. I typically do this right on the sheet pan, or you can add everything to a large bowl and toss it in there. Keeping everything on the sheet pan keeps the feta, tomatoes and chickpeas warm.

Step 5

Serve. I usually serve this from the sheet pan, so that the salad is kept warm, and serve with torn pieces of na'an bread or pita bread.

🎯 Why This Recipe Works

The combination of flavors is unbeatable:

• The fire-roasted tomatoes add a savory charred flavor to the dish.
• Feta cheese adds a salty flavor, along with the briny olives.
• Arugula adds a peppery flavor.
• Sherry wine vinegar brings in a little acid.

⏰ Tips to Simplify and Save Time

• Use canned chickpeas to save time. I prefer to cook my own from dried, but I always have a couple of cans of chickpeas (garbanzo beans) in my pantry for last minute dinners like this.

💡Ideas for Possible Variations

• Add red onion, or better yet, pickled red onion.
• Feta cheese is particularly good in this dish because of it's briny salty flavor. Halloumi is another cheese that would go well, and hold up well under the broiler. But if you prefer, add some Pecorino or Manchego cheese, both of which are cheeses made from sheep's milk. As a final cheese option, add goat cheese in place of the feta.
• Add fresh herbs such as fresh oregano, flat parsley, fresh basil or fresh mint.
• Roast, peel and seed one - two large red bell peppers and add to the mix with olives and arugula.
• Sprinkle on some red pepper flakes for a little heat.

🥬 Make it Vegan

• Use a vegan feta-style cheese.

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