A great alternative to chicken salad!
I find entering recipe contests so rewarding! Take today’s challenge; create a healthy recipe with Saucy Mama mustard. So I brainstorm, I want a fast, easy, tasty vegetarian sandwich spread. I will confess I am not a vegetarian but I get so tired of meat. I love light healthy lunches. Plus, I love serving lil’ tea sandwiches. Take all this into account and presto my lil’ cooking brain starts tasting Saucy Mama Chickpea-Cashew Salad Sandwich Spread or Dip. I am tickled to offer you this recipe! I am so rewarded by today’s challenge because this one is a keeper! It is a great alternative to meat sandwich spreads. Perfect for vegetarians or for Meatless Monday, Gluten-Free and Heart Healthy diets! I ran a nutritional count on the spread.When 4 peeps are sharing this spread each would be consuming 243 calories, 33 g carbs, 12 g protein and 315 mg sodium! That makes my heart happy!
You all know, I am in the Skinny Mama – Cooking with Mustard” Recipe Contest. If you missed my Coho Salmon with Spicy Sunchoke Yogurt Topping click this link! The prize: a $500 gift card along with a $500 spa gift card! I do you need your help! I need votes on Facebook so I can make it into the top 10 bloggers! At that point, Saucy Mama begins cooking up some mustard masterpieces….hopefully mine! Please head over to Saucy Mama’s Facebook contest page on February 29 and vote for My Merry Cooking! Thanks and squeezes!That makes my heart happy!
NOW THIS IS FOR YOU!!!
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I am hosting a Saucy Mama Mustard Giveaway! Saucy Mama is giving away three bottles of their delicious mustard to one lucky reader! The Saucy Mama condiment kit will include: Saucy Mama Tarragon Lemon Mustard, Smoky Garlic Mustard and Saucy Mama Dijon! To participate, you can do any or all of the following; please leave a separate comment for each so I can count it as another entry:
1. Leave a comment telling me your favorite condiment.
2. “Like” Saucy Mama on Facebook and leave a comment there letting Saucy Mama what you think of my mustard cooking!
This giveaway ends Monday, March 5 at 9PM EST; after that the winner will be randomly chosen and notified by email.
Good luck to all!
Disclaimer: I was provided with Saucy Mama’s Mustard Products a for the purpose of the contest. All opinions are 100% mine.
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Saucy Mama Chickpea-Cashew Salad Sandwich Spread or Dip
How you serve this mock chicken spread is up to YOU!
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Saucy Mama Chickpea-Cashew Salad Sandwich Spread or Dip
Ingredients:
1 (16 oz) can chickpeas
1 celery stalk, cut in 1-inch pieces
1/4 cup parsley (before chopping)
1/2 cup dry roasted no salt cashews
1/3 cup Greek low fat yogurt
1 tablespoon Saucy Mama Champagne Honey Mustard
1 1/2 teaspoons Suzie’s Yellow Mustard
1/3 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/4 cup chopped green onions, green and white parts
1 tablespoon sweet or dill pickle relish
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground pepper
Radish Shoots
Directions:
Rinse and drain chickpeas. Combine chickpeas, celery chunks, parsley, and cashews in a food processor.
Pulse a few times to chop finely. Add remaining ingredients and gently stir until well mixed. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Spoon chickpea mixture into a round bowl to form a mound. Refrigerate if not serving immediately.
When ready to serve, invert bowl to release chickpea-cashew salad mound onto a plate lined with radish shoots or lettuce leaves.
If not serving immediately, cover and refrigerate for up to 24 hours.
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Serving ideas:
Serve on your favorite toasted bread or with crackers.
For an appetizer, spoon chickpea-cashew salad into butter lettuce cups as an easy to serve lettuce wraps!
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Saucy Mama Chickpea-Cashew Salad Sandwich Spread or Dip Photo Album!
Not too many ingredients in this delicious spread!
JUST in case you don't know ~ Chickpeas and Garbanzo Beans are the same!
Toss some of the ingredients in for a lil' whirl!
Chop until it looks like this! 3 pulses~ that's it!
Fold in the other ingredients by hand so it isn't too WeT!
Press into a bowl and invert to form a chickpea-cashwe spread mound!
Serve on lettuce leaves at your next PaRtY!
Or nibble on them when you are home alone! So healthy and delicious!
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LoVe and HuGs to All! Stop by my house for some delicious mustard masterpieces!
Until next time, MERRY MUSTARD COOKING
p.s remember to VoTe!
When divided between 4 PeePs, here is the nutritional count!
Looks delicious, Merry! I’ll be voting for you tomorrow!
Thanks Ronna ~ I appreciate all the votes I can get!
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Oh Mary, this is beautiful! I will be serving this on Saturday for friends! And my favorite condiment is mustard– due to the fact there are so many varieties, it is the perfect condiment!
Out of 213 entries into My Merry Cooking Saucy Mama Mustard giveaway, random.org selected #97. The lucky winner is Deb Andersen. Deb is going to love the Saucy Mama mustards! Thanks for supplying so many bottles of mustard to so many people!
Your spread is SUPER ! My sister brought me some Saucy Mama from Austin this weekend….we made the spread and served it on romaine heart leaves, celery stalks, glutenfree nut cracker-chips, thin breads…and my accidental favorite…thin ginger cookies…no really !! Love this !
Thanks for this comment ~ it really means a lottot me that you tried the recipe and it was a winner in your mouth!