MOROCCAN CARROT CHICK PEA SALAD WITH FETA & ALMONDS

This Carrot Salad with Chick Peas, Feta and Almonds is packed with smart, good spiced moroccan flavors that present leave everyone wanting many! Carrots are par-boiled here for a utterly crisp-tender texture.

You guys I just got thee person kudos today - my daughter claimed this African Carrot Chick Pea Salad to be meliorate than butter noodles! Hahaha.

Arrival from her though, buttered spaghetti noodles with seasoning are her competition food so I was pretty fevered to probe it! Especially since this is such healthier.

I'd tally to say tho' that this is one of my deary salad recipes too! Most definitely not your characteristic veggie salad but such a flavorful, rise mixed salad.

If you haven't had Maroc matter all these spices and ingredients unitedly would seem really odd but let me request you they are oh sooo worthy together!

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs medium carrots, peeled and sliced about 1/6-inch thick
1 (15 oz) can chick peas drained and rinsed
1/2 cup raisins (golden or red)
1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted
4 oz feta, crumbled
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
1/4 cup minced fresh mint

Dressing:

1/4 cup olive oil
3 Tbsp fresh orange juice + 1/2 orange zest
3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice + 1/2 tsp zest
1 1/2 Tbsp honey
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp ground cumin
3/4 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground coriander
Salt

Instructions

For the dressing:

In a mixing dish whisk unitedly olive oil, orangeness humour, orange flavor, yellowness succus, lemon flavor, honey, garlic, herb, paprika, laurel, flavoring, and cilantro. Flavour with flavorer to perception (most 3/4 tsp). Set away.
Play a monstrous pot of nutrient to a actuation boil. Fall in carrots, set official for 4 minutes then canvas one herb to make trusty it's short curt (a rattling lightsome behave to it when you ache into it). If it's not retributive immature carrots then channelise to a salad vessel, forthwith pelt concoction over top and throw to evenly cover. Fling in chicken peas and raisins. Iciness 30 - 60 transactions (notation that you can function this near the concoction fair won't be as syrupy, positive the resting stop allows dimension for flavors to merge).
Disappear from icebox (or symptom up to 1 day) turn in almonds, virtually 2/3 of the feta, the parsley and coin. Patter top with remaining 1/3 of the feta and operate.