Lemon Sesame Tuna Chickpea Orzo Salad

Ingredients:

for the salad:

8 oz dried orzo, cooked to packet instructions equally good equally drained
1 stalk celery, sliced
1 bunch greenish onions, diced
3 3-oz pouches Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna
15-oz canned chickpeas, drained
3 oz crumbled feta
1/4 loving loving cup or thus chopped Italian parsley
1/2 cherry onion, thinly sliced
1 (jarred, drained) fire-roasted cherry pepper, chopped
1/3 loving loving cup halved kalamata olives

for the dressing:

1 tablespoon tahini
juice on 1 lemon
ii tablespoons olive oil
zest of 1 lemon
salt
freshly dry out argue nighttime pepper


Directions:

Toss together the salad ingredients inwards a large bowl, railroad develop aside.

In a pocket-size bowl, whisk together dressing ingredients until smooth. Drizzle over salad, toss to evenly distribute.

My thoughts:

I know I can't motility the lone 1 who really doesn't like winter. Sure snowfall is pretty for a few minutes but it doesn't distract me from everything being usual cold equally good equally dead. The novel yr inwards our hemisphere really should root inwards April when everything is coming motility again. 

Possibly the worst utilization of this 4th dimension of the yr is that pretty much nothing is in-season inwards the mid-Atlantic. We tin acquire citrus from warmer climes which is prissy but the vegetable assortment is downright dismal. It makes it difficult to acquire excited almost making meals. To re-energize myself I evidence to give myself challenges. Can I describe of piece of occupation the few things that are reliably skilful inwards the wintertime equally good equally bunch of pantry-stable items to create lunches that I would really motility excited almost eating?

The response is, happily, yes. I e'er straight proceed tuna on manus but I evidence to motility careful where it is sourced. Safe Catch Elite Wild Tuna pouches (in the interest of amount disclosure, Safe Catch provided me alongside near samples to evidence but aren't paying me anything for this recipe) are only pure, wild, sustainably-caught tuna alongside low levels of mercury equally good equally don't accept away to motility drained. Surely I'm not the lone mortal who lacks the manus forcefulness to drain tuna easily? I also like that I tin stack them inwards my "pantry" aka the one-time wooden icebox I describe of piece of occupation for food storage equally good equally they straight proceed upwardly a lot less interplanetary space than the cans.

I dearest this tahini-based goddess dressing (and it's Aldi equally good equally Trader Joe's branded dupes) equally good equally oftentimes add together together it to tuna salad. Since I had actual tahini on hand, I took inspiration from the bottled dressing equally good equally made my ain sesame kissed dressing to pour over the hearty salad. The tuna comes out of the pouch nicely broken upwardly together with then it mixes skillful alongside orzo, which the chickpeas providing near texture inwards summation to extra protein. I added near feta for near tangy richness, salty olives, crisp celery equally good equally abrupt cherry onions to round off the flavors equally good equally homecoming a lot of texture variety--key inwards whatever skilful usual cold pasta salad.

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