Couscous and Chickpea salad with creamy walnut dressing

Couscous and Chickpea salad with creamy walnut dressing

Ingredients

• 2 bunches of asparagus
• 75g of snow peas
• 1 small lettuce
• 1 small curly leaf lettuce. (curly endive)
• 2 cups of prepared and cooled couscous
• 300g of cooked chick peas
• sweet paprika to dust
• 30g walnuts
• 1/2 cup of natural soy yoghurt
• 2 tbs lemon juice
• 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind
• 1 tbs thyme leaves
• salt and freshly ground pepper.

Directions

1. Steam asparagus until tender and crisp (about 2 mins)
2. Place snow peas into a heat proof bowl and cover with boiling water for 1 minute then plunge asparagus and snow peas into cold water and drain well.
3. Arrange lettuce leaves on a plate and add couscous in the centre, top with snowpeas,chickpeas and asparagus.
4. To make the dressing place walnuts, soy yoghurt, lemon juice, rind, thyme, salt and pepper into a food processor and blend until well combined.
5. Drizzle over salad and dust with paprika.