Easy Make-Ahead Carrot and Chickpea Salad With Dill and Pumpkin Seeds

This easy, make-ahead chickpea salad combines chickpeas with grated carrots, pumpkin seeds, and plenty of dill. It's the ideal food for a packed lunch, whether it's at school, the office, or on the road.

Chickpea Salad With Bacon, Cotija, and Roasted Chilies

This hearty chickpea salad flavored with bacon, cotija, and roasted chilies is easy to make and only gets better as it rests overnight. This is a dish custom-made for making ahead and packing on a camping trip or for lunch at the office.

Seven-Layer Make-Ahead Salad With Chickpeas, Endive, and Yogurt Dressing

Let's admit it: A seven-layer salad is really just garnished mayonnaise. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's potluck food—not exactly the kind of dish you'd serve at a dinner party or holiday gathering. It's too bad, because the seven-layer salad offers one really serious advantage to the harried home cook: It's meant to be made ahead. You can assemble the whole thing several hours in advance and place it on the table with no need for further dressing or futzing. I decided to take ...

Make-Ahead Quinoa Salad With Cucumber, Tomato, and Herbs

Loosely based on Middle Eastern tabbouleh salad, this easy make-ahead salad combines grape tomatoes (sweet and ripe any time of year) with cucumber, parsley, mint, and quinoa for a bright and refreshing make-ahead salad that's hearty enough to serve as a light meal.

Roasted-Chickpea and Kale Salad With Sun-Dried Tomato Vinaigrette

A hearty salad of chickpeas roasted with cumin and paprika until dense and nutty, combined with kale, fresh herbs, pine nuts, and sun-dried tomatoes. This is a salad that gets even better on the second day.

Make-Ahead Bulgur Pita Pockets with Spiced Chickpeas, Carrots, and Tahini

Heaps of fresh parsley, paprika, and coriander add tons of bright flavor to this hearty bulgur dish, stuffed into a pita and held together with some lemony tahini.

Marinated Kale and Chickpea Salad With Sumac Onions

This salad keeps fantastically in the fridge, retaining its crunch and developing its flavor over time.

Middle Eastern Chickpea Salad

This may very well be the best chickpea salad you ever have in your life. Yotam Ottolenghi - I salute you. Worthy of a meal in itself - and good for you!

Antipasto Chickpea Salad

I can't wait for you to get hooked on this Chickpea Salad too! Easy to make, mainly just opening jars, filled with punchy antipasto flavours.

Make-Ahead Marinated Cucumber Salad with Radishes, Dill, and Shrimp

Cucumbers and radishes are the perfect, refreshing candidates for a salad that can improve while sitting in dressing overnight. The tangy, shallot vinaigrette I used as a marinade—just shallots, apple cider vinegar, olive oil and a big pinch of salt—is my go-to, and it never fails me.