A sandwich that is filled with an avocado and chickpea mixture and baby arugula, sliced in half on a blue plate.
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Smashed Chickpea & Avocado Salad Sandwich

This Smashed Chickpea & Avocado Salad Sandwich is a fresh, hearty, healthy vegan lunch option that’s guaranteed to please meat-eaters and vegetarians alike! It’s a rich and creamy sandwich filling that you can feel good about eating!

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I saw this sandwich over on Pinterest, and just knew it was something I wanted to try. I love interesting sandwich combinations, and slap an avocado on almost anything and I’m game!

A sandwich that is filled with an avocado and chickpea mixture and baby arugula, sliced in half on a blue plate.

So I made a batch of this goodness this afternoon, and we really enjoyed it! I did not bother peeling the skin off of the chickpeas…that just sounds like torture. I don’t think the texture was adversely affected at all.

I put a bed of baby arugula on the bread, topped with this salad, and lunch was ready!

The avocado makes it nice and creamy, the chickpeas give it some substance, and the tangy lime really brightens up the entire dish. This was a nice and easy weekend lunch that I’ll definitely make again.

I’m already dreaming up ways to change up the filling to give it some flair – it’s going to be a fun recipe to play around with!

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A sandwich that is filled with an avocado and chickpea mixture and baby arugula, sliced in half on a blue plate.

Smashed Chickpea & Avocado Salad Sandwich

  • Author: Big Flavors from a Tiny Kitchen - Ashley Covelli
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 0 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 3-4 Sandwiches 1x
  • Category: Vegan, Sandwiches
  • Method: No Cook
  • Cuisine: American

Description

A fresh, hearty, healthy vegan lunch option that’s guaranteed to please meat-eaters and vegetarians alike! It’s a rich and creamy sandwich filling that you can feel good about eating!


Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
  • 1 large ripe avocado
  • 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons chopped green onion
  • Juice from 1 lime
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
  • Sandwich bread (use your favorite)
  • Salad greens (I like baby arugula, but other greens or sprouts would work, too)

Instructions

  1. Place chickpeas and avocado in a medium bowl and smash them together using a fork or potato masher
  2. Add cilantro, green onion, lime juice, salt, and pepper and stir to combine. Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary. 
  3. Spread about 1/4 of the salad on bread and top with salad greens.

Notes

Recipe slightly adapted from Two Peas and Their Pod

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 348
  • Sugar: 3.5 g
  • Sodium: 875.3 mg
  • Fat: 11.6 g
  • Saturated Fat: 1.6 g
  • Carbohydrates: 50.8 g
  • Fiber: 11.4 g
  • Protein: 13 g
  • Cholesterol: 0 mg

Keywords: vegan sandwich, chickpea salad, avocado

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Ashley Covelli is a food photographer, recipe developer, and culinary instructor based in Ossining, New York. She loves helping people become enthusiastic and adventurous in the kitchen so that they can build skills and confidence to cook for themselves and their loved ones. She can almost always be found with at least 3 different beverages within arm's reach.

21 Comments

  • Anonymous

    I found your recipe on Pinterest and made it for lunch today. It was so amazing it was all I could do not to polish it all off at once!!! I can not wait to have it again, thank you for the awesomeness!

  • Anonymous

    This was yummy! I had it like a taco salad, cut up Romaine with tortilla chips….I was too impatient to add in tomatoes and other ingredients because it tasted so darn good! It was soooo good I started to eat more as a dip with my chips. This is a keeper!

  • Ashley

    Amanda – I think any fresh herb would be nice here. Parsley would be a mild alternative, but I think something like dill would be tasty, too. Let me know how you like it and what you subbed! 🙂

  • Anonymous

    LOVE this recipe! The next time I make it I am going to add a bit of finely minced jalapeno pepper to give it some heat.This recipe ROCKS! Will definetly make it again! :0

  • Anonymous

    I was going to halve the recipe but went ahead and used a whole avacado, so mine ended up basically looking like guacamole with chickpeas! Then it seemed to be missing the garlic flavor, though, so I just added that and ate it with chips. 🙂

  • Collar City Brownstone

    I made this recipe yesterday and it is FABULOUS! It reminded me of egg salad sandwiches which I loved to eat before I went vegan. So for me this is a vegan egg salad sandwich. It has the creaminess of an egg salad with a similar flavor. The next time I make it I am going to chop up a hot pepper and add it to the mix, as “anonymous” suggested.

  • kat

    I put a little garlic and hot red pepper in with this and lemon instead of lime juice (it’s what I had in the house) …next time I’m going to add red onion and craisens! Great recipe, thanks!

  • Stephanie

    A-ma-zing! I doubled the recipe and added garlic powder to the mash on a grain and seed bread. Toasted my bread a little bit to make it firm and it held together well. This one’s going in the books!






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