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A delicious Chickpea Sorghum Salad filled with fresh herbs and spices. Sorghum is a gluten-free grain hailing from Africa with a lovely mild taste and chewy texture. Packed with B-group vitamins, protein, fibre and spectacular colour!<\/em><\/p>\n

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I feel like I am running with a theme here, after using that lovely rich pomegranate molasses and lemony sumac in my last post - the Radical Roasted Beet Hummus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So today's recipe is a Middle Eastern inspired, flavoursome summer salad - think tabbouli, but with that gorgeous sorghum, and a few added extras - purely to add spectacular colour.<\/p>\n

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A traditional tabbouli is made with bulgur wheat, finely chopped parsley, mint, tomato, cucumber and onion, tossed in a simple olive oil, lemon and garlic dressing.<\/p>\n

This sorghum salad is only very loosely based on the classic. If you haven't dabbled with any sorghum<\/strong> recipes yet - then start with this one. It is a delightfully chewy gluten-free grain, that makes for a fabulous alternative to bulgur.<\/p>\n

I've written a more detailed post on the nutrition and health benefits of sorghum<\/a> here, but in a nutshell, it is:<\/p>\n