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These Chickpea fries are awesome finger food. They can be frozen to store, baked or grilled with or without oil or pan fried. I added ranch seasoning to the batter, so u can eat these fries as is without a dip, or use any of your favorite dips or sauces.
Change up the seasoning, or skip the spices.. tons of variations.
Make these Chickpea flour Fries.
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Steps:
In a pan, add all the ingredients and start whisking on low-medium heat.
Whisk Whisk.
Cook until the batter feels quite stiff.
Pour the batter onto parchment or greased sheet.
Let it cool and set.
Cut it up. Bake, grill or pan fry.
Brushed will oil and being grilled on grill pan on stove top high heat below.
Serve hot!
Chickpea Kabocha Fries. Vegan Glutenfree Recipe Fat-free option
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Chickpea flour, besan/garbanzo bean flour. You can also use garbanzo-fava bean flour
- 1/3 cup well mashed roasted Kabocha squash, or any other squash or 1/3 cup mashed sweet potato
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/3 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ranch seasoning, Garlic, Onion, Dill, Parsley, Chives and a touch of Pepper. or other spices of choice)
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a bowl or directly in the pan, add all the ingredients and whisk.
- Heat the pan on low-medium heat and keep whisking to combine all the ingredients.
- Whisk for 4-6 minutes until the batter starts get thick and stiff. You will be able to feel the stiffness and the batter will not move easily.
- Drop the stiff batter onto parchment or greased sheet. Spread the batter quickly using a greased spatula keeping it 1/4-1/2 inch thick and let set for an hour in refrigerator.
- Cut the set batter into strips. (At this point, the strips can be frozen. Thaw and proceed to grill/bake.)
- Then either bake or pan fry or grill. Brush a little oil on the fries to grill.
- Pan fry for 2-3 minutes each side on medium-high heat.
- For Baked: Broil on Low for 4-5 minutes then broil on High for half a minute to a minute(depends on how crisp you want the fries). The fries can be baked or grilled without oil too.
- I sprinkled some cajun spice on them and served with sriracha.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I shall be making some of these tomorrow – we love chickpeas any which way, and we enjoy chips now and then – these with some roasted Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and tomatoes should be really tasty:) thank you!
Oh yes.. these can be added instead of tempeh!:))
I love making fries from chickpea flour! Usually I just season them with salt and pepper afterwards and eat them with ketchup, but I love your version with the seasoning added to the batter and adding mashed squash. I bet the sweet potato version would be amazing too, I definitely have to try that! Thanks for the tip on freezing too – now I know that I can make a bigger batch and have them whenever I want 🙂
i know right.. add some spice to the batter. the taste changes drmatically!:) oh yes.. definitely make a bigger batch!
So Creative Richa! I am loving all the recent recipes using chickpea flour – thanks for sharing Cadry’s post too, I really enjoyed reading it!
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chickpea flour is quite a versatile thing:)
i loved her post.. its hilarious and at the same time makes some excellent points!
i have never seen or had kabocha fries but i have a sweet potato waiting to be used-will be trying this out 🙂 Although I am not an vegetarian or vegan, I do enjoy plant based diet quite frequently and there are so many recipes and techniques, substitutions one can make to create healthy, delicious meal & desserts.
great.. do let me know when you try it out..:) great to hear you keep trying plant based meals:)
[ Smiles ] I LOVE chickpeas and you have provided me with a recipe in which I can use it in.
Thank you!
Thank you. i love chickpeas too. do try these fries:)
Oh, thank you for the kind words, Richa! So lovely of you to mention my post! With the gorgeous food you make and pictures you take, you’re changing that “vegan stigma” one recipe at a time!
I need to make chickpea fries. It seems that chickpeas in any form only make things better!
i hope so too:) cant imagine people calling poison control on me 😉
true that about the chickpea:)
I love Kobucha Squash and i’ve heard chickpea fries are really good but never tried them. This recipe looks so good i’m going to have to try it out now for sure! Thanks for the inspiration!
do try it out.. it is easy and addictive!:)
did you make these just for me, because i feel like you did. going to the TOP of my vegan richa to make list.
ps- made a vegan richa inspired mexican pizza last night. SO GOOD. used the oat crust and a simplified(ie no spice) version of your refried beans. topped with lettuce, avocado, tomato, and vegan sour cream 😉
Awesome! Make some fries:)
Awesome on the refried beans pizza too:) i am so glad you are loving that crust:)
Richa- you have outdone yourself! These look so good! Kabocha is one of my favorite squashes too. 🙂
oh i need a squash break:) i keep getting a squash every week in the csa delivery and keep trying to finish them up!:)
I’ve never had kobocha squash before. I love sweet potatoes though, so maybe I will like it too?! I will have to keep an eye out for it.
Yup.. it should work with mashed sweet potato too.. use about a 1/3 cup:)