• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
Search
  • About
    • Press
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • How To Make Oatmeal + Whipped Banana Oatmeal
    • Overnight Oats
    • Smoothie In A Bowl
  • Nutrition
    • Top 10 Nutrition Posts
    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight Change
    • Becoming A Registered Dietitian
  • Organize
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Shop Our Home
    • How To Declutter Your Kitchen Cabinets
    • Kitchen Organization Accessories
    • 5 Tips for Keeping a Clean House with Kids
    • NERD KERF
  • Beauty
    • My Beauty Routine
    • Products For Brighter Skin
    • How to Apply Skincare in the Right Order
    • Anti-Aging Line Review
    • Safer Sunscreen
    • Clean Beauty Essentials + Beautycounter Promo Code
  • Kids
    • Mazen’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Nursery
    • Baby Food Favorites
    • Favorite Baby Care Products
    • My Kids’ Favorite Toys
  • Life
    • Fitness
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
  • Shop

Kath Eats Real Food logo

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube
Search
  • About
    • Press
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • How To Make Oatmeal + Whipped Banana Oatmeal
    • Overnight Oats
    • Smoothie In A Bowl
  • Nutrition
    • Top 10 Nutrition Posts
    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight Change
    • Becoming A Registered Dietitian
  • Organize
    • Digital Clutter Course
    • Shop Our Home
    • How To Declutter Your Kitchen Cabinets
    • Kitchen Organization Accessories
    • 5 Tips for Keeping a Clean House with Kids
    • NERD KERF
  • Beauty
    • My Beauty Routine
    • Products For Brighter Skin
    • How to Apply Skincare in the Right Order
    • Anti-Aging Line Review
    • Safer Sunscreen
    • Clean Beauty Essentials + Beautycounter Promo Code
  • Kids
    • Mazen’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Birth Story
    • Birch’s Nursery
    • Baby Food Favorites
    • Favorite Baby Care Products
    • My Kids’ Favorite Toys
  • Life
    • Fitness
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
  • Shop
You are here: Home / Recipes / Simple Tuscan Salad

November 8, 2017

Simple Tuscan Salad

This simple Tuscan salad with herby chickpeas, olives, artichokes, and provolone is the perfect hearty, crowd-pleasing salad to take to a potluck or picnic.

Tuscan Salad Inspiration

This great recipe was inspired by an airport salad.

SAID NO ONE EVER!

Airport salads are usually the worst! Past-prime greens, maybe a lone nut, cold meats or little protein, sogginess throughout.

But when I was traveling through Chicago a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a cooler of salads that looked really good! Vegetarian and packed with toppings that sounded good. I ate the whole darn thing! I took a picture of the ingredients so I could replicate it at home.

My Version

My version has some overlap in ingredients and some new ones based on what I had on hand. Plus, all other olives are better than black olives! This is the perfect hearty, crowd-pleasing salad to take to a potluck (if you’re not making jalapeno poppers, deviled eggs, or bacon-wrapped dates!)

Tuscan Ingredients

The base is two bags of a flavorful herb salad from Whole Foods.

Instead of putting plain chickpeas plain on top, I dressed them first and then mixed them in. Plain chickpeas taste too earthy to me sometimes, and this brightened them up a bit with salad dressing on each one before they went swimming in the lettuce ; )

I absolutely love this basting oil I get at Wegmans. It’s seasoned with herbs and garlic, so it saves a step when using it on veggies or beans. The chickpeas got a drizzle of this plus salt, pepper, and a squeeze of lemon juice. You could also use vinegar, like red wine vinegar if you don’t have a lemon.

The main dressing was more of the same – equal parts basting oil and lemon juice, a teaspoon of zesty mustard to emulsify, a small bit of garlic, salt, and pepper. It made about 1/2 cup total. You can whisk it together in a small bowl or shake in a mason jar.

And for the main salad – just eyeball everything! In a large bowl combine all the ingredients, top with dressing and toss together. I like a big wooden salad bowl for an earthy feel : )

In addition to the chickpeas, I added marinated olives and sun-dried tomatoes (from the olive bar), diced tomatoes and peppers, quartered canned artichokes, and sliced cheese. Add anything you like!

Print Pin
5 from 1 vote

Simple Tuscan Salad

Course Salads
Cuisine tuscan
Keyword chickpeas, pasta salad
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

  • Lettuce to fill your bowl about 4 ounces
  • 1 can chickpeas drained
  • 1 bell pepper chopped
  • 1 heirloom tomato or a handful of cherry tomatoes chopped
  • 1 can quartered artichokes drained
  • 1 cup olives and sun-dried tomatoes
  • 3 slices cheese sliced into bite-sized pieces

For the dressing

  • Herbed olive oil about 1/3 a cup (or regular with some dried herbs stirred in)
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 tsp zesty or Dijon mustard
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  • Mix dressing together in a jar and shake.
  • Toss chickpeas in a few tbsp of dressing.
  • Assemble salad.
  • Pour remaining dressing over salad when it's serving time and toss.

More Delicious Salads!

  • Citrus Curry Farro Salad 
  • Massaged Kale Caesar 
  • Mediterranean Salad Bowls
  • Three Delicious Homemade Salad Dressings / 
  • Rainbowl Superfood Salad

More posts from Kath:

Filed Under: Recipes, Salad Recipes

Reader Interactions

Previous Post
Things We Take Seriously
Next Post
Mazen Eats Real Food – Through The Years

Comments

  1. Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog says

    November 8, 2017 at 7:12 am

    Haha, I couldn’t agree anyone wanting to replicate an airport salad. The recipe has to be pretty amazing if you say that! 🙂

    Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog
    http://charmainenyw.com

    Reply
  2. Carrie this fit chick says

    November 8, 2017 at 8:46 am

    This is a salad made for me! Loveeeee olives so much. They were always my pizza topping go-to as a kid. So much flavor!

    Reply
  3. Nicole @ Bento Momentos says

    November 8, 2017 at 9:03 am

    Yum! I usually avoid airport food and bring my own, but this ingredient list sounds great. Croup is no joke — happy to hear the cold air did help!

    Reply
  4. Tracey says

    November 8, 2017 at 10:13 am

    This looks delicious! I have been planning out my Thanksgiving menu and wished I had a healthy side dish to go with everything. You have solved my dilemma! I think everyone will love it, thank you. 🙂

    Reply
  5. Susan says

    November 8, 2017 at 10:57 am

    This salad looks great…except for the olives! I imagine that I hate olives the way you hate onions.

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      November 8, 2017 at 11:01 am

      I get that! I didn’t like them till recent years.

      Reply
  6. Kelli @ Hungry Hobby says

    November 8, 2017 at 10:58 am

    Ha ha I always think I’ll be able to get a good salad at the airport and then I remember… I’m at the airport ha ha

    Reply
  7. Katie says

    November 8, 2017 at 1:10 pm

    YUM! I don’t know why I never think to put olives on my salads when I do love when they’re included in restaurant salads. This looks so good!

    Reply
    • Linda @ the Fitty says

      November 8, 2017 at 6:01 pm

      5 stars
      do you put olive oil on your salads? If so, you’ll still be getting that all the flavor without having to buy olives.

      Reply
  8. jordan @ dancing for donuts says

    November 8, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    this salad is absolutely beautiful!! mediterranean flavors are my favorite, so give me olive anything and i’m sold! i’ll have to make this as a side salad for dinner this weekend – i think my boyfriend will love it, too. thanks for sharing 🙂

    Reply
  9. Sam Vander Wielen says

    November 8, 2017 at 5:09 pm

    Hope Mazen feels better!! Thanks for sharing this recipe : )

    Reply
  10. Edie says

    November 8, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    So yum, Kath! Pinning this for inspiration 🙂

    Reply
  11. Claire says

    November 9, 2017 at 4:58 am

    I’m loving the salad servers, guessing they were a wedding gift?

    Reply
    • KathEats says

      November 9, 2017 at 6:45 am

      They’re from Crate and Barrel 🙂

      Reply
  12. Theresa Magliozzi says

    November 10, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    What a good idea to season the beans first!! Genius! I always feel like garbanzo beans are too bland in salad, but I like them. I’m going to do this from now on!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Search

Topics to browse >>

Everything kerf delivered to you

    Footer

    hi! Im Kath.

    I'm a Registered Dietitian, healthy eater, and mom of two from Charlottesville, Virginia. Here you’ll find a healthy mix of real-life meals made from whole ingredients balanced with the pleasures of life, including buttercream frosting and good wine. Plus a sprinkle of nutrition, home life, beauty, parenting, and travel.
    about | privacy policy

    Recipes

    • Oatmeal Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Smoothie Recipes
    • All Recipes

    Nutrition

    • Healthy Mindset
    • Real Food
    • Weight

    Life

    • Exercise
    • Wedding
    • Charlottesville
    • Travel
    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube

    Copyright © // 2021 Kath Eats Real Food
    Jump to top