Gyros Salad with Chickpeas
Ingredients
- 300 g chickpeas (cooked, drained)*
- 1.5 tablespoons gyros/kebab seasoning
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon spicy ketchup
- 1 red onion
- 3 medium pickles
- 1 small can of corn
- 1 leek
- 1 red bell pepper
- optional: 5 slices of pineapple (e.g. canned)
- 5 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon yogurt or sour cream
- 1/2 iceberg lettuce or Chinese cabbage
- 1 tablespoon parsley
Preparation
- Drain the chickpeas, put them in a pan with olive oil, add gyros seasoning, mix and fry, stirring occasionally, for about 3 minutes. Transfer to a medium-sized salad bowl and drizzle with ketchup.
- Peel the red onion, dice it, sprinkle with salt, then place it in the salad bowl.
- Add another salad layer of peeled and diced pickles, then drained corn.
- Cut off the roots of the leek and the green leaves. Cut the white and light green part of the leek lengthwise into 4 parts and rinse. Chop, place in a sieve and pour boiling water over it from a kettle, drain thoroughly. Place in the salad bowl.
- Add diced bell pepper and then optionally pineapple.
- Cover with mayonnaise mixed with yogurt (or sour cream) and chopped lettuce (or Chinese cabbage) mixed with chopped parsley.
Tips
* can be steamed chickpeas, canned (1 can, 425 g) or from a jar in brine, or cooked yourself after soaking beforehand (recipe)