Chickpea Salad with Courgettes, Mint, Chillies and Goats Cheese

Chickpea and Courgette Salad with Mint, Chillies and Goats Cheese

(serves 4 as a side dish)

2 soup-size tins chickpeas, drained

1 large courgette (zucchini), inner seedy core discarded, and the courgette diced

3 cloves garlic, minced

8 leaves mint, minced fine

handful flat-leaf parsley, minced fine

1/2 red onion, diced

juice of 1 lemon

LOTS of olive oil, perhaps 1/3 cup

sea salt to taste, fresh ground black pepper

sprinkling of minced hot red chillies

100 grams goats cheese, crumbled

In a big, shallow bowl, mix everything but the goats cheese very well, stirring as you add ingredients, letting stand a bit.  Just before serving, sprinkle on goats cheese and mix gently.