{"id":1935,"date":"2013-09-29T09:37:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2013-09-29T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T14:37:13","slug":"chickpeas-tomato-vinaigrette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"Chickpeas &#038; Tomato Vinaigrette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1931\" alt=\"Chickpeas &amp; Tomato Vinaigrette\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to finding an excuse to post my tomato vinaigrette, I created this recipe to make &#8220;meatless Monday&#8221; more bearable for my carnivorous instincts. To accomplish this, I considered textural variety as great a priority as taste. The almost meaty chickpeas combined with the crunch of fresh carrot and celery hit the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Try the vinaigrette on green salads as well. It&#8217;s particularly wonderful on a salad of lettuce, tomato and crispy bacon!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: 15 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serves: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<address>2 14-ounce cans chickpeas \u2013 rinsed and drained<\/address>\n<address>8 cocktail tomatoes \u2013 seven diced &amp; one reserved<\/address>\n<address>1 stalk celery \u2013 diced<\/address>\n<address>1 carrot \u2013 peeled and diced<\/address>\n<address>\u00bc red onion \u2013 diced<\/address>\n<address>1 hot pepper \u2013 finely diced<\/address>\n<address>3 tablespoons parsley \u2013 chopped<\/address>\n<address>3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil<\/address>\n<address>1 tablespoon sherry vinegar<\/address>\n<address>1 clove garlic &#8211; finely chopped or grated<\/address>\n<address>\u00bc teaspoon kosher salt<\/address>\n<address>\u215b teaspoon &#8211; fresh ground black pepper<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p><strong>Preparation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Place the chickpeas, tomatoes, celery, carrot, onion, pepper and parsley in a suitable bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Put the reserved tomato, olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper in a blender, blending on high until combined.<\/p>\n<p>Pour the vinaigrette over the chickpea mixture, toss and serve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Get the PDF and nutrition info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to finding an excuse to post my tomato vinaigrette, I created this recipe to make &#8220;meatless Monday&#8221; more bearable for my carnivorous instincts.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Chickpeas-Tomato-Vinaigrette.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevskitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}