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Chickpea Salad With Gim
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- Total Time
- 5 minutes
- Rating
- Notes
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Ingredients
- 4tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 2tablespoons rice vinegar
- Pinch of granulated sugar
- Salt and black pepper
- 1small red onion, finely diced (about 1 cup)
- 20grams gim (roasted, salted seaweed), finely chopped
- 2(15-ounce) cans chickpeas, rinsed
Preparation
- Step 1
To a large bowl, add the mayonnaise, sesame oil, rice vinegar and sugar. Season with salt and pepper and whisk until smooth.
- Step 2
Add the red onion, gim and chickpeas to the bowl and toss to combine.
- Step 3
Serve immediately or pack in an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
This is an interesting use of gim, and the dish tastes great! Thanks, Eric, for your continually creative approach to Korean ingredients and dishes, as well as to cooking generally. BTW: I find it easier to use a pair of kitchen scissors rather than a knife to cut up gim, even when producing very small pieces.
I made this with the full 20 g (4 packages) of seaweed (I used Trader Joe’s Organic Roast Seaweed With Sea Salt). Substituted 1/2 tsp of honey instead of the sugar (the mayo I use has no sugar) and didn’t add any extra salt. Delicious!!! Will definitely make this again.
Super easy and delivers a lot of taste. I used all the seaweed and it was a lot more green than the picture. But I love seaweed. Added a bit of pepper for bite and fried shallots for texture. Next time I’ll add diced cucumber, and try avocado instead of Mayo. Btw what is this leftovers that people mention?
I used shallot instead, mandolined a carrot, and put it all on top of rice with a sprinkle of furikake. I had gimMe brand roasted seaweed sheets on hand and they worked great. So yum, fast, and easy.
LOVE everything except the chick peas! I'll use the dressing as an "Asian' dressing. I used the GimMe brand gim ... each snack pack has 5 grams of gim. I used one pack -- 5 grams. I think more would be too much for this American palate.
AMAZING per usual with every recipe Eric Kim puts out
Delicious! I think the quantity of seaweed listed seems wrong, especially based on the picture. I used a 5oz container and it was much more seaweedy than this pic. Regardless, a new favorite.
This is a really tasty recipe! Loved another posters suggestion to serve over rice. I ate it with some japanese-style picked veggies to help cut the fat. I used the whole 20 grams of gim and loved it. Fwiw there were 3 different sections in my suburban grocery store with “roasted salted seaweed snacks”. The cheapest was in the snack food aisle - not the Asian food section.
I was so hoping it was a typo and they meant GIN. Oh well, good excuse fir a martini on the side.
Great recipe, but I used only 10 ounces of roasted seaweed and it was enough. Also more like 3 full servings than 4.
This has become one of our staple dishes in our family ! It’s so delicious and innovative !
This is one of those “don’t knock it ‘til you try it” recipes. I made as written except using leftover white onion and half the gim per comments but I’ll try as written next time. For people complaining this is fishy/too much gim, I’m wondering if they used a non-roasted, non-seasoned kind, as that kind of gim can definitely be fishier - I’m Korean and I don’t like that kind either. Quick, satisfying, no-cook recipe for a quick meal or side.
My new favorite- so easy to assemble and wonderful taste!!
I made this with one can of chickpeas and less dressing, and I am a big fan of all sauces! 4t mayo and 2t sesame oil but the full amount of vinegar and more than a pinch of sugar. Used regular onion as that's what I had. Very nice and so easy. I ate the whole thing in one sitting. Amount of seaweed called for is good and I needed to add some salt. As Annie says, scissors are the way forward when dealing with gim. Great recipe, will definitely make again.
This is so good. Made it as written but used maybe 40g of gim. We used Sempio gim, roasted and seasoned, so I’m not sure if that makes a difference in the weight called for but that amount works for us. We’ve made this for 2 weeks in a row now to take for grab-and-go lunches. It’s good alone, but we also sometimes pair it with brown rice and/or shredded chicken depending on how hearty we need lunch to be.
Easy to make and tasty, especially if you like seaweed flavor. I made this for a barbecue and some liked it. Some did not, so it was hit or miss. I’d make it again for a snack for myself in a pinch, but not a sala for everybody.
Not a seaweed fan, so made it without. A perfect light dinner lunch next day. Another keeper - thank you, Eric Kim!
This recipe was very hit or miss with our group, with a slim majority disliking the flavors. I weighed out the 20 grams of gim, but wished I'd used half or less. The funkiness of the gim overwhelmed the delicate flavor of the sesame and rice vinegar dressing (which for me is usually a slam dunk combo). If I make this again I'd use half or less seaweed (probably can't altogether do without).
This is ridiculously delicious.
I haved the recipe for two servings but only use 5 grams of gim. Served it on a bed of arugula with some sliced cucumbers and diced avocado. A delicious and healthy dinner if you don’t count all the potato chips I ate while making this. 😊
Simple and delicious. Omitted sugar. My first time eating gim. My wife purchased the gum at a nearby Korean market. She was confronted by a multitude of choices. The owner recommended a gim for salad. It was easily cut with a sharp knife.
Delicious! I made this along with Eric’s Tuna Mayo Rice. Two super easy recipes for a quick, hearty meal. Not a huge fan of chickpeas and didn’t have any on hand but cannellini beans worked really well. Use Gim Me’s teriyaki flavored snacks and just left out the sugar since those are a touch sweet. Will make again!
Crazy good. The dressing and gim (I used sesame -- the only kind available at Market Basket and it was bomb) are delicious with chickpeas. I was shocked. I followed someone's rec and sliced up a carrot and then randomly decided to serve it with rice noodles (benefits from extra sauce). So good! Love the idea of adding cucumber! Someone here suggested using kitchen shears to cut up the gim. I found this excessively ponderous. Chopping a bunch with a regular chef's knife worked way better.
20 grams of gim is too much. 1 package of seaweed snack is 5 grams.
Coincidentally I had a big package of gim from my last trip to HMart. This was delicious. I added a bit of cucumber as someone else suggested - because it was there and I needed to use it - and this simple salad totally hit the spot. Thank you.
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