Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives

Chickpea salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives is the perfect lunch for 2! A fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you!

Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives. The perfect lunch for 2: a fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you!

I forget how much I love having tuna for lunch. When we were poor college students, we’d had this mixture of canned tuna, avocado, tomato, black beans, and cilantro every other day and I have to say I miss it! It was simple and an obvious lunch choice for us because of the price and being pretty well balanced health wise. I set out to make this chickpea salad yesterday without the tuna and after I got it all mixed up, I knew it would be made even yummier by throwing in a can of tuna! It took the total time for me to make it from 4.5 minutes to 5 WHOLE MINUTES. Can you handle that?

Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives. The perfect lunch for 2: a fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you! Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives. The perfect lunch for 2: a fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you!

Quick confession. I don’t like olives. I can barely tolerate the smell of them, let alone allow them in my mouth, but something magical happened in this salad and the olives actually started working for me! I did pat them down a little bit to lessen the amount of olive juice that made it into the mixture, so if you’re not a huge olive fan either, that’s an idea to help you out.

Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives. The perfect lunch for 2: a fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you!

This is a small batch of this salad, but it’s a perfect size for a quick lunch for 2 or enough for 1 person to make for 2 lunches!

Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives. The perfect lunch for 2: a fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you!

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Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives. The perfect lunch for 2: a fresh, pantry staple meal that is good on the budget and even better for you!

Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Tuna, and Olives


  • Author: Kitschen Cat
  • Total Time: 5 mins
  • Yield: 2 1x

Ingredients

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  • 15 oz can chickpeas
  • 1 can tuna **optional
  • 1/2 cup pitted Kalamata olives, roughly chopped
  • 1/3 cup finely chopped red onion
  • 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil (affiliate)
  • freshly ground pepper

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a small mixing bowl and gently stir until combined.
  2. Serve alone or with crusty french bread!
  • Prep Time: 5 mins

 


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