Garbanzo Beans Salad

You on diet – eat salad… Salad is considered a very healthy food.. and sometimes boring food too. People imagine salad as a combination of uncooked vegetables mostly spinach, lettuce, onions and some salad dressing to add all the calories reduced by the vegetables. This salad is very refreshing and tastes best when served cold. It is very rich in protein (all credit to garbanzo beans). The nice potato chips topping (2 or 3 chips per serving) gives an interesting taste, texture and dimension to this salad. I got this recipe from here.  Make sure to add the potato chips just before serving or it will loose it crispness.



Ingredients
Garbanzo Beans (chickpeas / channa) - 2 cups
Tomato - 2
Onion - 2
Coriander Leaves - 1/4 cup
Hung Curd – 1/2 cup
Chili Powder - 1/2 tea spoon
Amchur Powder - 1/4 tea spoon
Asafetida - 1/4 tea spoon
Salt - 1 tea spoon + 1/2 tea spoon + 1/2 tea spoon
Potato Chips - 2 or 3 per serving
Method
Soak the garbanzo beans overnight and pressure cook for 4 to 5 whistles with 1 tea spoon of salt and set aside. Drain the water.
Cut the onions and tomatoes to small cubes and add 1/2 tea spoon salt and set them in a strainer to remove excess liquid
Add the 1/2 tea spoon salt, red chili powder, amchur powder, asafetida, coriander leaves, onion and tomato to the hung curd and mix well
Add the hung curd to the cooled garbanzo beans and mix well and keep in the refrigerator
Before serving top it with crushed potato chips and serve chilled


Sending this to Well Seasoned Cook's MLLA, Bookmarked Entries - Jacqueline from Tinned Tomatoes as host and mention Ruth from Ruth's Kitchen Experiments as founder of the challenge, Tickling Palate's Starters / Appetizers, Spotlight: Healthy Snacks, Indrani's page, Healthy Diet - Diabetic Friendly Recipes