Mediterranean Chicken Sausage and Chickpea Salad
 
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The recipe serves 2 people as a salad or 4 people as a side dish.
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Recipe type: Side Dish
Serves: 2-4
Ingredients
  • 2 already cooked chicken sausage links (about 6 ounces), sliced into 1-inch thick rounds
  • 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • ½ cup diced red onions
  • 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme, divided
  • 1 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
  • ½ cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes, packed in oil
  • 1 tablespoon reserved oil from the sun-dried tomato jar
  • Sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
  1. Heat a medium skillet over medium high heat and saute the sausage pieces for 3-4 minutes on each side, until they're nice and charred. Set the sausage aside.
  2. Add 1 teaspoon olive oil to the skillet and turn the heat to medium. Add the chopped red onions and saute for 3 minutes or until they begin to soften.
  3. Add 1 teaspoon thyme, chickpeas, sundried tomatoes, and salt and pepper, to taste, to the skillet. Saute for 1 minute.
  4. Add the sausage back to the skillet along with 1 tablespoon oil from the sun-dried tomato jar. Saute for 1 additional minute, stirring all the flavors together.
  5. Garnish with 1 teaspoon fresh thyme.
Recipe by Healthy Recipe Ecstasy at https://www.healthyrecipeecstasy.com/mediterranean-chicken-sausage-chickpea-salad/