ChickpeaTuna Salad

This dish is fish free, so don't be scared!!

Have you ever been out of meat-variety proteins for your sandwich and felt up-a-creek?

Well, guess what? If you have listened to me at all, you have beans in your cupboard or in your pantry, just waiting for you to use them, pay attention to them, and to love them.

Don't play games with your beans. Be nice to our plant-based protein friends, please.

Make them into the star of your lunch time. You'll be happy you did it. And they'll be happy too. Yay for lunch friends!

ChickpeaTuna Salad

1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
2 celery sticks
7 baby carrots
1/8th small onion (use as much as you'd like)
4 pickle spears (or 2 tbsp pickle relish)
1-2 tbsp mayo
2 tsp hot sauce (if you wish)
salt & pepper to taste

Use the food processor to pulse the chickpeas into a very chunky tuna-like consistency (or smash with a fork, potato masher, fist, you know- whatever works). Pour into a mixing bowl.
Add the celery sticks, carrots, onion, and pickles into the food processor. Pulse until the consistency of relish. Add to the chickpeas.
Add the mayo, hot sauce, salt & pepper. Mix until combined! Serve with crackers, in a pita, on top of a green salad, or in between two pieces of naan bread! YUM!
You should use veggies that you love in your ChickpeaTuna! Adding red peppers is another favorite!

I added spinach, cucumbers, and more hot sauce to my sandwich!!

xoxo Sam