A single dish to be served on the hottest days, with legumes as protagonists, such as chickpeas, peas, lentils, which add protein and flavor to salads
In the summer, you don't feel like cooking, but lunches and dinners can be repetitive: Ham and melon, rice salad, caprese, cold pasta. Let's try a different salad? The protagonists are the legumes, such as peas, broad beans, lentils, chickpeas or beans. Combined with vegetables (or fruit), cheeses, aromatic herbs and much more, legumes make the salads greedy, without sacrificing freshness. Here are some ideas!
Bean, cucumber, watermelon and feta salad
A very simple salad: you will need a box of White beans (you can opt for dry ones if you prefer, but the preparation takes longer), a cucumber to peel and cut into cubes, a slice of watermelon to remove the seeds and cut into small pieces, and feta, to crumble on the salad. To add a bittersweet touch you can add slices of Tropea onion. Dress with extra virgin olive oil and salt or, if you prefer, with a yogurt and mint vinaigrette and you're done!
Chickpea salad, yellow and red tomatoes, baby spinach
Chickpeas pre-drunk and drained of their water, tomatoes of mixed colors that give joy to the salad, cut into slices. Then add a few leaves of spinach and, if you want it to have an extra touch, add a can of natural tuna. Season to taste and the salad is ready.
Salad of fresh peas, broad beans, soncino and hard-boiled eggs
shelled peas is Fava beans eliminating the pod. Add a few leaves of soncino, two whole hard-boiled eggs and a few cubes of Parmesan. Season everything with extra virgin olive oil mixed with a teaspoon of Dijon mustard and lemon juice.
Salad of lentils, olives, tuna and peppers in oil
The salad empties the pantry, greedy and very fast, is with the lentils (also in this case it is faster if you already have them pre-cooked in a box), black olives (le taggiasche they are perfect because they give a particular aroma to the salad), roasted peppers in oil and tuna. The fresh touch? Sliced cherry tomatoes.
Spinach, melon, shrimp and chickpea salad
The gourmet salad is the one with chickpeas and i shrimps (you can buy them preless or put them in a steamer for a few minutes). Remove the head and shell, add spinach, diced melon (to be replaced with nectarine if you don't have it) and boiled chickpeas. Dress with extra virgin olive oil and salt.
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