Easy Vegan Chickpea Patties Recipe

These easy and vegan chickpea patties are your crispy and nutritious healthier alternative to the regular burgers.

It's always a good idea to include more plant-based foods into your diet. Whether it's fruit, veggies, nuts, seeds, grain or legumes. And what better way to do it than to try and combine more together into a dish that the whole family can eat.

These easy chickpea patties (or chickpea fritters, however you want to call them) are just that.

Serve them in a burger instead of meat, dipped in some yogurt sauce or simply as a snack at the party, this chickpea patty recipe will soon become one of your favorite recipes.

This recipe was inspired by Vegetarian Crispy Roasted Chickpea Gyros, Healthy Meatballs For Toddler & Baby With Hidden Veggies and 16 Easy Vegan Stew Recipes.

​About These Vegan Chickpea Patties 

This chickpea patty recipe doesn't contain any animal-based ingredients and is a great way to include more plant-based foods into your diet. The chickpea mixture should easily hold together even if no eggs are added to the recipe.

You can make larger patties, medium-sized ones or even small ones based on how you want to serve them and in what type of meal you want to use them.

Whether it's chickpea salad, a side dish, burger patties or a single food - the possibilities with this recipe are great! 

Ingredients For Chickpea Fritters 

To make these simple chickpea fritters, you will need the following ingredients: 

• Chickpeas: you can use either canned chickpeas for this recipe or you can soak and cook your own. If using canned ones then one can is sufficient which would be equal to about 1 1/1 cup of cooked chickpeas 
• Flour: I like to use whole grain flour (whole wheat flour) in fritter recipes, but you can pretty much use any flour of choice - oat flour, chickpea flour or even some buckwheat flour will all do the trick 
• Onion: it's best to use a regular red onion, but you can also use yellow onion, spring onions, shallots or even onion powder 
• Garlic: a garlic clove adds to the whole aroma and taste of this chickpea patty recipe but if you don't have one, just add some garlic powder 
• Carrots: if using organic carrots (highly recommended) leave the skin on as it contains the most nutrients 
• Fresh parsley: there is nothing better than fresh parsley but if you don't have any, dry parsley will do 
• Olive oil: I use olive oil for frying them but you can also bake them on ghee butter or another plant-based oil 
• Breadcrumbs: to ensure a crispy texture of the patties, I like to coat them in breadcrumbs prior to baking or frying but this can be skipped 

How To Make Vegan Chickpea Patties - Step By Step 

Follow these simple steps for the best way to make this little chickpea patties: 

1. Drain the chickpeas (if using canned chickpeas), place them in a large bowl and mash chickpeas with a potato masher. For instructions on how to make this recipe using a food processor scroll down.

2. Peel the carrot (if not organic) and grate it. 

3. Chop the onion and garlic. 

4. Add all the ingredients for the chickpea fritters (except the water) and mix together.

5. Now add a tablespoon by tablespoon of water until you have a mixture that holds well.

6. Scoop the amount of the mixture based on the size of the patties you want and form patties. 

7. Coat each patty into breadcrumbs (optional). 

8. Now heat a large skillet over medium heat and add olive oil. You can also use a cooking spray.  

9. Place patties onto the skillet and fry for about 2-3 minutes. 

10. Turn around and continue frying for another 2-3 minutes. 

11. Once baked, remove from the skillet and place on a paper towel to drain a bit before serving. 

If making in a food processor then first put the grater attachment and grate the carrot, then use the chopping attachment and chop the onion and garlic and then add tHh chickpeas and rest of the ingredients except water. And then follow the same method as above.

​How To Serve

There are numerous ways you can server and enjoy your chickpea patty recipe. Here are just a few of our favorite ones: 

• Serve with a dipping sauce such as yogurt dip 
• Make it a completely vegan meal and serve with a vegan tzatziki sauce 
• Enjoy some vegan chickpea burgers 
• Make some mini patties and serve in pita bread 
• Serve as a single food alongside some baked veggies such as sweet potatoes
• Add mini chickpea patties into a fresh salad

How To Store Leftover Patties 

​In case you end up with some leftover patties (highly unlikely), you can always store them in an airtight container in the fridge and use within 3 days. 

If you want to make a larger amount of the patties and save for later, then I recommend freezing them before baking, separately on a baking sheet.

Then once each is frozen, transfer to a silicone bag so it uses less space in the freezer. 

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