# Caramelized Onion Chickpea Salad Sandwich

A hearty, nourishing, and flavorful meal that uses minimal cheap ingredients like chickpeas and caramelized onions.

- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
- Category: Salad
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, grated
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp maple syrup
- 1 15 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 0.25 cup plain unsweetened plant-based yogurt
- 2 tbsp vegan mayo or good quality tahini
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 Juice and zest of small lemon
- 1 handful chives, thinly sliced
- Kosher salt to taste
- Sliced bread
- greens of choice
- cucumber slices
- dijon mustard and/or plant-based cream cheese

## Instructions

1. Caramelize the thinly sliced onions.
2. Stir half of the caramelized onions into a base of chickpeas along with a creamy base of your preference, chives, lemon, and garlic.
3. Fold the mixture together.
4. Use your favorite condiments, layer on some lettuce, the chickpea filling, and pile on the extra caramelized onions into a sandwich.

## Tips

- Caramelizing onions makes a big difference in flavor.
- Make a lot of caramelized onions as half gets stirred into the chickpea base and the rest is piled on top.
- The chickpea filling can be used as a dip or stuffed into a sandwich.

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdHys9J5/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/b3576f19-63db-4f2e-ba18-c9691ea831ef
- Extracted: 2026-05-06

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