When you’re in hangry mode, but you want a meal that hits all the must haves: delicious, easy, fast, and wholesome, then this sweet and savory Vegan Curried Chickpea Salad is the perfect winner to make your belly happy. It is a beautiful combination of creamy and crunchy texture with a pow of delicious curry flavors, it makes for a quick and tasty lunch or dinner. Full of healthy feel good ingredients: chopped apples, chickpeas, carrots, celery, jalapeños, golden raisins, cilantro, peanuts, and red onions, all blanketed in an awesome curry dressing, what’s not to love?!  This week’s Whip It Up Wednesday recipe is ideal for work lunchboxes, quick dinners, or just plain fun eats.

Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, no highly processed ingredients, and gluten free.

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This week’s Whip It Up Wednesday recipe features our tasty Curried Chickpea Salad.  Put this deliciousness in a sandwich, wrap, or in a lettuce cup, it is sure to please everyone in the family. It is sweet, savory, fresh, and satisfying.  The flavor component and texture is just over the top in YUMMINESS!

Bean Salads

Mom and I love to make bean salad sandwiches, wraps, and lettuce cups for lunch.  Our Tuscan Bean Salad was featured on a number of foodie sites recently.  It is super delicious, and our Avocado Chickpea Salad Wrap is loaded with avocado goodness! Oh yeah!

Mom’s nod to a vegan Waldorf Salad is quite popular with our readers too.  Dad loves our Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Bean Salad, and one of my favorites is our Vegan Buffalo Bean Wrap.

All of our bean salads are super easy to make and real time savers!

But lemme just tell you . . . this salad, oOooOooO doggies, is my new bean salad fave!  I just adore the curry flavor and don’t even get me started on those fresh, crisp apple bits and chewy bursts of sweet golden raisins, coupled with the zesty red onion and crunchy jalapenos.  They just add a whole “nuther” flavor dimension and texture.  The chopped roasted peanuts are optional, but oh-so-delicious!

My mouth is watering just typing this up.

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Penzeys Sweet Curry Powder

As most of our readers know by now, we simple adore Penzeys spices and herbs.  They produce incredibly aromatic and outstanding spices and herbs. You might not think it makes a difference, but once you’ve tried their spices and herbs, you will know what I am talking about.

We used Penzeys Sweet Curry Powder; however, please feel free to use your favorite curry powder. And just to qualify this statement, this is not a sponsored add for Penzeys, we just love them that much! ?

Wrap or Lettuce Cup

This recipe makes for a perfect wrap, but if you are looking to cut some carbs, then this salad is perfect for serving in a lettuce cup (or even topped on a salad.)  Mom and I tried it both in a wrap and then in a lettuce cup, both were super tasty.  Dad scarfed down the sandwich(es).  Yes, he packed down 3 sandwiches in one of our kitchen tests!

I seriously can’t wait for you to try this!

We hope you are enjoying our Whip It Up Wednesday quick and easy ideas!

If you try this tasty bean salad, we would love to know if you enjoy it as much as we do! Please leave us a review! Post a picture on Facebook or Instagram and tag us!  We would love to hear from you.

Products Used:

• Potato masher or fork to mash the beans

Vegan Curried Chickpea Salad

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• Author: Monkey and Me Kitchen Adventures
• Prep Time: 15 Mintues
• Total Time: 0 hours
• Yield: 4-5 Servings 1x
• Category: Salad, Lunch

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Description

When you’re in hangry mode, but you want a meal that hits all the must haves: delicious, easy, fast, and wholesome, then this sweet and savory Vegan Curried Chickpea Salad is the perfect winner to make your belly happy. It is a beautiful combination of creamy and crunchy texture with a pow of delicious curry flavors, it makes for a quick and tasty lunch or dinner. Full of healthy feel good ingredients: chopped apples, chickpeas, carrots, celery, jalapeños, golden raisins, cilantro, peanuts, and red onions, all blanketed in an awesome curry dressing, what’s not to love?!  This week’s Whip It Up Wednesday recipe is ideal for work lunchboxes, quick dinners, or just plain fun eats.

Whole Food Plant Based, vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, no highly processed ingredients, and gluten free.

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Ingredients

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• 2 – 15.5 oz. cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• 1/3 to ½ cup red onion, small dice
• ¾ cup celery, small dice (+/-)
• 1/3 cup carrots, matchstick cut
• ½ to ¾ cup gala apple, unpeeled, small dice (+/-)
• 2 Tablespoons jalapeno, small dice
• 2 to 3 Tablespoons golden raisins (+/-) (optional)
• 2 Tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped

Dressing Ingredients:

• ¼ cup unsweetened plain plant yogurt
• 1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon lime juice
• 1 teaspoon organic maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon tahini
• 2 ½ teaspoons sweet curry powder *
• ½ teaspoon coriander
• ½ teaspoon sea salt (+/-) *
• Pinch black pepper (+/-) 

Optional Ingredients:

• ¼ cup roasted peanuts, chopped (lightly salted) (+/-)
• Chopped cilantro

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Instructions

1. Place the dressing ingredients into a small bowl, whisk, set aside.
2. Place the drained and rinsed chickpeas into a medium sized bowl and roughly mash them with a potato masher.  Do not turn them to mush.
3. Then add all the remaining ingredients and dressing, mix well. Taste test for seasonings.  Add additional seasonings to reach the desired flavor.
4. Serve on bread, toast, crackers, tortilla wraps or lettuce wraps.

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Notes

*Sweet Curry Powder:  We really enjoy Penzeys Sweet Curry Powder, please feel free to use your favorite curry powder.

*Sea Salt:  Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.

*Serving:  4 to 5

*Storage: Refrigerate and use within 4 days.

*Nutrition Information: Does not include optional add-ins of raisins and peanuts.

This post contains affiliate links, and we may receive a very small commission if you purchase through those links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Monkey and Me Kitchen Adventures! For more information, see our disclosures here.