Recipe: Garbanzo Bean Salad

A delicious salad, chock-full of phytoestrogen foods, vitamin C and vitamin E. 

Serves 2, recipe adapted from Jamie Oliver’s 

• 1 small red onion, peeled

• 1-2 fresh red chili, deseeded

• 2 handfuls ripe red tomatoes

• 1 lemon

• 3 tbs flaxseed oil

• sea salt

• freshly ground black pepper

• 15 oz tin of chickpeas, drained

• 1 handful fresh mint, chopped

• 1 handful fresh basil, chopped

• 1 Tbs. of sunflower seeds

Directions: Finely slice the red onion and chilies. Roughly chop tomatoes, mixing them in with the onion and chilies. Scrape all of this, and the juice, into a bowl and dress with the juice of half a lemon and & flax seed oil. Season to taste. Add the chickpeas to the bowl. Allow it to marinate for a little while at room temperature. Add the fresh mint and basil.