Meal Prep Chopped Chickpea Salad

This meal prep chopped chickpea salad can be made on the weekend and enjoyed throughout the week!  Store them in meal prep containers, or as jar salads.

I just celebrated a birthday…it felt big.  It’s my biggest yet.  34.  Whoa nelly.

I can’t believe I’m actually in my mid-thirties.  Do I feel mid-thirty? Not really.  I swear I was just 28.  Then poof!  34.

But the weirdest feeling has come along with this age group.  It’s a feeling of contentedness, finally feeling settled…of finding my place in the world.  My 20’s was filled with anxiety to find ‘the one’, to get ‘the career’, and to check all those boxes you are supposed to check by a certain age.

I was constantly stressed out about my career in particular.  I spent 10-ish years going down one career path to find myself stressed out and completely miserable.  These days, I feel incredibly fortunate, and so much more relaxed, even though in this world of blogging, there is no certainty.  Everything is always changing, but I’m confident that if this career gets a shake-up, I will find a way to land on my feet.  Been there, done that.

And now that I’ve gotten all my sentimental I-just-turned-34-feelings out, let’s talk about this meal prep chopped chickpea salad!

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I did a poll on Facebook awhile back, asking which types of meal prep lunches you want to see, and was surprised by the number or people requesting vegetarian meal prep lunches.

So.  Here you go!  Meal prep chopped chickpea salad, which you can serve in a meal prep container or as a jar salad.

I was inspired by tabouli, and it has a bulgur base.  Bulgur.  What an unappetizing name.  It’s tasty, I promise!  If you don’t have bulgur, feel free to use rice, quinoa, barley, anything you’d like.

I topped the bulgur with chickpeas, and a whole lotta veggies to bring the crunch factor: celery, radishes, and bell pepper.  This meal prep chopped chickpea salad has a great variety of textures: creamy, crunchy and chewy.  I’m allll about the textures 😉

Not only that but this salad also brings the flavor.  Mostly thanks to the honey lemon vinaigrette, which I borrowed from one of my most popular recipes: this Kale, Barley Salad with Feta.

This meal prep chopped chickpea salad keeps great, in fact it may even taste better after marinating for a few days.  And bonus: chickpeas make for a pretty darn easy protein to prepare 😉 .

Tips for your perfect meal prep chopped chickpea salad:

• I used my favorite salad dressing shaker to mix up the dressing
• you can store your salad in these meal prep containers or pint sized mason jars
• looking for more vegetarian meal prep recipes?  Check out these Southwestern Sweet Potato Lentil Jar Salads and these Chickpea, Barley & Butternut Squash Lunch Bowls
• swap the bulgur for quinoa, rice, or your favorite grain!

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Chopped Mediterranean Chickpea Power Salads

Prep Time

20 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Total Time

40 mins

 

This meal prep chopped chickpea salad can be made on the weekend and enjoyed throughout the week!  Store them in meal prep containers, or as jar salads.

Course: Lunch

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Servings: 4

Calories: 431 kcal

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup uncooked bulgur
• 19 oz can of chickpeas drained and rinsed
• 1/2 cup feta cheese crumbled
• 3 ribs celery finely chopped
• 1 bell pepper finely chopped
• 1/3 cup radish finely chopped
• 1/4 of a red onion minced

Honey Lemon Vinaigrette:

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest

Instructions

1. Cook bulgur according to package directions and allow to cool.
2. Shake together all vinaigrette ingredients.
3. For Meal Prep Containers:Toss together all salad ingredients in the vinaigrette and divide amongst 4 2-cup capacity storage containers.
4. To Store In Jars:Divide vinaigrette evenly amongst four 1-pint/2-cup glass jars.
5. Add the chickpeas to the bottom of each jar, and top with bulgur, celery, bell pepper, feta cheese, radish and red onion.
6. To serve, shake the salad out into a large bowl and stir up to distribute the vinaigrette.

Nutrition Facts

Chopped Mediterranean Chickpea Power Salads

Amount Per Serving (1 lunch bowl)

Calories 431 Calories from Fat 153

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 17g 26%

Saturated Fat 4g 20%

Cholesterol 17mg 6%

Sodium 500mg 21%

Total Carbohydrates 57g 19%

Dietary Fiber 14g 56%

Sugars 7g

Protein 16g 32%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.