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Carrot Zucchini Chickpea Fritters Vegan Recipe. Eggless, nut-free, yeast-free. Can be made gluten-free. Cooked Chickpeas, shredded veggies and turkish spices. Use other spices or blends of choice. Use shredded sweet potato or winter squash for variation. Jump to Recipe
The other day, hubbs read my blog posts and mentioned how short they were. I said yes, I know. I post too frequently to have stories to tell in each one of them. Is there a reason why I make some of the recipes on the blog? More often than not, they come about because I have to use up certain veggies or items. I had chickpeas waiting to be used as I had experimented with aquafaba a day before ( which hadn’t turned out well). I always have leftover baby carrots. No one eats carrots for snack in the house except chewie and even he doesnt get more than 3 per day. And then some days hubbs picks up some of the not as frequently used veggies together. He is allowed to get 2 out of the many that we know will not be used up immediately like broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, mushrooms, bitter gourd, okra, celery. I don’t like some of these, so it needs a bit of planning and experimentation to use them up when I have them. I used up the mushrooms in the Umbrian Tartufo sauce pasta from Miyoko’s book and had to make something for myself. And I still have bitter gourd (Karela) and asparagus left for the weekend. Yes, you are cooking those on the weekend hubbsy.
As for chickpeas, I can use them in various ways in all these chickpea recipes. The problem with being a food blogger is that often I keep making something new. In fact, if there are a few days when I make repeat dishes, by the fourth day hubbs will ask me if I am ok 🙂 . So here goes. More chickpeas!
I am currently digging black pepper. So I made a peppery turkish spice blend, inspired by Turkish Baharat and used it in these patties. The spices work fabulously in the patties. Use whichever spices you have and whichever veggies like potatoes, squash, broccoli etc 🙂
Serve these as snack or breakfast with chutneys, sriracha, ketchup, vegan tzatziki, vegan cucumber raita or ranch. Or make sandwiches, use as burger patties.
More Chickpea Recipes
- Sweet Potato Chickpea Peanut Burgers. Vegan Recipe
- Spicy Chickpea Lentil Burgers
- Vegan Tinga Bowl with Spicy Chickpeas & Spanish Rice
- Buffalo Chickpea Pizza with celery ranch
- Chickpea recipes from the blog now tagged.
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But there are solutions, there is something that can be done. I am fortunate to know some of the people who have done those things and are continuing to. I am fortunate that my parents understood that there will always be those problems, but they could take one of them at a time and try to not contribute to it.
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Steps:
Process the carrots, ginger, garlic. Process chickpeas and add to the bowl.
Make the turkish spice blend. Add to the bowl. Shape the mixture into patties.
Pan fry until golden brown.
Serve with sriracha, ketchup or chutneys or choice.
VIDEO:
Carrot Zucchini Chickpea Fritters Vegan Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 small zucchini, shredded
- 1/2 heaping cup chopped carrots,
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 inch ginger
- 1 green chili or use cayenne to taste
- 15 oz can chickpeas, drained or 1.5 cups cooked
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1/2 tsp black pepper corns or ground pepper
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/2 to 3/4 tsp salt, depends on if the chickpeas were salted
- 1 Tbsp flax seed meal or chia seed meal
- 1/4 cup oat flour or other flour, (chickpea flour, rice flour, wheat/white flours will work)
- 1 to 2 tbsp breadcrumbs or more flour
- Oil as needed
Instructions
- Grate/shred the zucchini and add to a bowl using a grater or processor. Lightly press the zucchini in a paper towel if there is too much moisture.
- Add carrots, ginger, garlic, chili to a food processor and Process/chop until shredded and add to bowl. Or use grated carrots and minced ginger garlic chili
- Add the chickpeas to the processor and Process chickpeas until coarsely blended, not fully a paste. Add to the bowl. (I use a mini food processor and it works really well for both the steps). Or you can mash the chickpeas with a masher
- Make the Turkish spice blend : Crush the cumin coriander and black pepper using a mortar pestle. Or pulse in a spice grinder to a coarse meal. Heat 1/2 tsp oil in small skillet. When hot, add the crushed spices and cook until fragrant. You can also dry roast them until fragrant and use or add them unroasted.
- Add the spices to the veggie chickpea bowl. Add cinnamon, cardamom, salt, flour, flax and mix well. Add flour and mix in. Add breadcrumbs if needed.
- Form patties and cook with a little oil in a skillet over medium heat for 5 to 6 minutes per side.
- To bake, Bake at 400 degrees F (205c) for 20 to 25 minutes. Broil to crisp for a minute.
- Serve as snack or breakfast with chutneys, sriracha, ketchup, vegan tzatziki, vegan cucumber raita or ranch.
Video
Notes
Add chopped onion and cilantro.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These look amazing!
Wondering if you have ever tried prepping ahead and making the next day ? Are they as good?
Thanks !
Hi Maria,
There is a lot of moisture from the veggies in the mixture. Zucchini and carrot swill continue to leak moisture if made ahead and kept overnight. What you can do is pre-bake the fritters for 15 20 minutes to dry up some of the moisture, then thaw and pan fry to crisp them up and serve.
These were great, and no oil is needed for cooking when done on the Cuisineart Griddler, or on a ceramic pan on the stove.
Thats awesome!
These sound and look delicious! 🙂 Do you think the patties can be frozen, and then taken out to bake upon need?
Also, I have tried another recipe for zucchini patties and I baked them in an Actifry without oil and on parchment paper. They stuck like crazy and the bottom layer came out as I seperated them from the paper. Given that I don’t use oil at all in my diet, are there any suggestions for them not sticking or disintegrating? Will frozen ones have a better chance?
Prebake or pre cook them a bit so that some of the zucchini moisture is cooked out before freezing.
I have baked in a regular oven without oil before, patties and sandwich breads(that are the stickiest stuff), and a good parchment works best for that. It always releases from the food easily. If the patties stuck to the parchment, its probably the parchment. There are several qualities of parchment. I has a roll once that worked with cookies but always stuck to breads.
Often using the parchment paper for making this spray with oil or some butter…The flavor is great.I put all after making in the convections for seven minutes….it’s very crispy and you can put this in a pita bread as well with a lot of crunchy veggies.nThanks for sharing this…
Made those today…. Delicious!! Fantastic!! Thank you fir the recipe!!!
What do you serve with these to make a meal?
Serve them as a burger patty with dressing and topping of choice, or with a side salad and dressing. I also serve then with dal and chopped onion and cucumber.
This looks divine, cant wait to try it! I love your posts, you are pretty much the star of my Pinterest page! Thank you so much for making our lives better 🙂
Thank you Vikki! these are very versatile. Use any veggies and any spice blend!
I prefer these cold straight from the fridge as a snack – or in any meal because if I make these there’s no way I’m eating anything else until every last crumb is devoured.
And so EASY to make! I’m quitting going to restaurants from now on, I’m going to hang out here 🙂
😀 Awesome!!