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Mango Chickpea Salad

Averie Sunshine

4.91 from 11 votes

Updated: Jun 09, 2025

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🥭🌽🥗 Mango Chickpea Corn Salad is an EASY salad that’s ready in 5 minutes, HEALTHY, and full of Mexican-inspired flavors! I serve it as a meatless lunch, dinner side dish, or for picnics and potlucks, and it’s always a family favorite!

Quick & Easy Mango Chickpea Corn Salad

A no-fuss recipe, this is a flexible salad that allows you to incorporate different ingredients like jicama, zucchini, red cabbage, or even strawberries; they would all taste great. Or if you don’t have one of the ingredients on hand, I wouldn’t worry too much. Just don’t skip the mango.

I used two serrano chile peppers with the seeds scraped out, and they do add a noticeable degree of heat to the salad. Not in the first few bites, but after a normal-sized serving of the salad, you’ll notice the heat.

For the average person, I am guessing you would want to start with half of one chile with the seeds removed and work up from there as desired. No matter how you serve it, you’ll want to make a big bowl for a family dinner or meal prep.

This was/is a great salad. I wasn’t so sure how the chick pea would go w the mango but it was surprisingly delicious. The nuttiness of the chickpea offset the sweetness of the mango – genius!!! Will remake this salad over and over and over again! Thanks for the post!!!!

Allyah

Ingredients and Notes

For this easy corn and chickpea salad recipe, you’ll need:

• Chickpeas (Garbanzo Beans) – Use canned chickpeas to keep things easy. Just make sure to drain and rinse them well
• Mango – I do recommend fresh mango, but I realize it can be hard to come by at some points in the year so if you have to compromise and use frozen, so be it. I had the pleasure of making this salad in my Puerto Vallarta kitchen where altoufa mangos are common this type of year. They are smaller and more or a yellow-orange color than the mangos we typically see in US supermarkets which are bigger and tend to be green and turn reddish in parts when they ripen. Altoufa mangos are also sweeter, but use whatever type of mango you can get your hands on
• Veggies – Serrano peppers, tomato, sweet corn kernels (grilled, boiled, or frozen and thawed), cucumber, red onion
• Fresh cilantro – If you aren’t a fan, sub fresh parsley
• Lime juice – Freshly squeezed is best, but bottled juice will also work if that’s what you have on hand

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Mango Chickpea Corn Salad

This dish is so easy to prep that I can hardly call it a recipe!

1. Prep all the produce.
2. Add all the ingredients to a large bowl. If you don’t like super spicy foods, start with just half of a seeded serrano chile pepper and work your way up from there.
3. Gently toss to combine.
4. Taste and adjust as needed.
5. Serve immediately!

What to serve with this chickpea salad

Grilled Lime Cilantro Chicken

Grilled Aloha Chicken and Pineapple

Grilled Steak Kabobs

Grilled BLT Turkey Burgers

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4.91 from 11 votes

Mango Chickpea Corn Salad

By Averie Sunshine

🥭🌽🥗 An EASY chickpea and corn salad that's ready in 5 minutes, HEALTHY, and full of Mexican flavors! Great as a meatless lunch or for potlucks!!

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes minutes

Servings: 4 Servings

Equipment

• 1 Large Bowl

Ingredients 

• ▢ 1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed (I use no-salt added)
• ▢ 1 or 2 serrano chile peppers, diced very small, diced very small (seeds removed; start with 1/2 of one if you do not want much heat)
• ▢ 1 medium mango, peeled and diced small (I used an altoufa mango)
• ▢ 1 medium roma tomato, diced small
• ▢ ¾ cup corn, canned drained and rinsed, frozen, or fresh
• ▢ ¾ cup cucumber, peeled and diced small
• ▢ ½ cup red onion, diced very small; optional
• ▢ ¼ to ⅓ cup fresh cilantro, minced
• ▢ ¼ cup fresh lime juice, or to taste
• ▢ 1 to 3 teaspoons kosher salt, or to taste

Instructions 

• To a large bowl, add all ingredients, stir to combine, taste, and check for heat and salt balance, and make any necessary adjustments; i.e. more serranos, lime juice, salt, etc.
• Serve immediately.

Notes

Storage: Salad will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 3 days, noting that as time passes more liquid will be released from the mango and the vegetables.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving, Calories: 274cal, Carbohydrates: 53g, Protein: 12g, Fat: 4g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Sodium: 2183mg, Fiber: 11g, Sugar: 20g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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