Name: Chickpea and Baby Beet Salad with Pickled Red Onions
Prep time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Ingredients: ¼ cup apple cider vinegar; ¼ teaspoon sea salt; ½ cup thinly sliced red onion; 1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard; 1 (5-ounce) package mixed baby greens; 1 (15-ounce) can no-salt-added chickpeas, drained and rinsed; 1 (8-ounce) package refrigerated cooked whole baby beets, halved or quartered; ¼ cup roughly chopped fresh chives; Cracked black pepper

Prep-time: 25 minutes / Ready In: 1 hour 25 minutes
Makes 8 cups
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Quick-pickled red onions are the star of this salad, which features a colorful medley of baby greens, chickpeas, and cooked beets. You can easily make extra pickled onions to use on sandwiches too—they’ll keep in their liquid for up to three days in the refrigerator. Toss the salad just before serving so that the baby beets don’t bleed their color into the rest of the ingredients. If you’re not a fan of beets, replace them with diced, steamed winter squash.

By Carla Christian, RD, LD, Sep 27, 2018

Ingredients

¼ cup apple cider vinegar
¼ teaspoon sea salt
½ cup thinly sliced red onion
1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard
1 (5-ounce) package mixed baby greens
1 (15-ounce) can no-salt-added chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1 (8-ounce) package refrigerated cooked whole baby beets, halved or quartered
¼ cup roughly chopped fresh chives
Cracked black pepper

Instructions

Combine the vinegar and salt in a small bowl, stirring until the salt is dissolved. Stir in the red onion. Cover and let stand for at least 1 hour. Drain the onion, reserving the vinegar mixture. Whisk the mustard into the vinegar mixture.
Combine the baby greens, chickpeas, beets, and chives in a large bowl. Drizzle with the dressing; toss to coat. Divide among bowls and top with pickled onions and pepper.

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Tracy Golder3 months ago

This salad is so easy and delicious! One of the best salads I ever made!

Isabelle Katz1 year ago

Oh yum!! One of the greatest salads ever!!!

Laura2 years ago

So simple and so delicious!!!
Never thought about reusing the vinegar as salad dressing ( with addition of mustard.
Perfect for company too. Wow!

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Carla Christian, RD, LD

Carla Christian received her associate’s degree in culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of America in 2006 and her bachelor’s degree in dietetics from Michigan State University in 2009. She finished her dietetic internship from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2010 and is a former chef in the Better Homes and Gardens® Test Kitchen. Find her on LinkedIn. Photo by Jason Donnelly.

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