SMASHED CHICKPEA SANDWICH

    GOOD MORNING :D
Today is Wednesday,  2012,  January 11th
 Wow !!  Can you believe how fast 2011 escaped us?  Then 2012 made a grand entrance in many areas.
Here in Florida, it was Beautiful, quiet, and spent with a few friends here at the house.
I am always on the lookout for new  foods.  I opened a can of chickpeas, I was going to make hummus.  
My Tahini,  was so thick I could not even stire it.  That was the end of that.  I began to look for recipes for chickpeas and found this one on ......SMITTEN KITCHEN.........This sandwich is delicous.   I like my beans, veggies, and change.  I really like the saying " why be normal "    :D
   


CHICKPEA SANDWICH

Smashed Chickpea Salad
Inspired by ‘wichcraft


INGREDIENTS
1 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons pitted, halved and very thinly sliced black olives
1 tablespoon finely chopped red onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Zest and juice from half a lemon (if you’ve got one of those sad, juiceless lemons, use both sides for juice)
Couple good pinches of salt
A few grinds of black pepper
A few glugs of olive oil (the original is quite oily, like bread-soaking oily, I went a little lighter. Both ways are delicious)


DIRECTIONS
Mix everything but the olive oil in a small to midsize bowl. Very lightly smash the chickpea mixture with the back of a fork or a potato masher. You’re not looking for a hummus-like puree but something closer to a coarse chop with a few smaller bits to hold it together. Add the glugs of olive oil, mix it lightly and enjoy.


NOTES AND TIPS
This is also awesome as a sandwich on toasted bread, and it needs nothing else on it. But, if you want to doll it up, here are some ideas: A slice of roasted red pepper (as they do at ‘wichcraft), watercress (ditto), a slice of pickled garlicky red pepper(our way). We schmeared the bread with a tahini dressing, which was just tahini, lemon juice and a minced garlic clove thinned with water, but if you’ve got some harissa, I bet that would also be delicious.