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.
Short post again today.. crappy eye alert..
More Savory Snack and Breakfast options see the collection here.
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 (60 g) Chickpea flour besan/garbanzo bean flour. You can also use garbanzo-fava bean flour
- 1/3 cup (300 g) well mashed roasted Kabocha squash or any other squash or 1/3 cup mashed sweet potato
- 3/4 cup (187.5 ml) water
- 1/3 tsp (0.33 tsp) salt
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 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
Shilpa
Thank you for sharing a healthy recipe. You inspired me to try making this recipe. Looking so appetising !
Vegan Richa Support
yay!
Shilpa
It looks so appetising and you inspired me to go and try this recipe out. Thank you for sharing healthy recipe.
Vegan Richa Support
thanks for sharing Shilpa
Hà
I LOVE curry 😍
Vegan Richa Support
Awesome!! Do leave a rating too if you feel so!
Jane Kim
Genius
Alex @ delicious-knowledge.com
These look delicious! I love chickpea fries but have never had them with squash, must try!
Alex @ delicious-knowledge.com
These look so delicious! I love fries like this, can’t wait to make these!
Vegan Pleiade
This is amazing!
Maureen Koplow
These look scrumptious! I’d imagine you could use canned pumpkin instead of the squash if you’re in a hurry (or too lazy to cook a squash). I can’t wait to try these.
Gabby @ the veggie nook
Wow these look amazing! I love the gorgeous colour and can only imagine the amazing flavour from the kabocha! I bet these would be awesome with a spicy dipping sauce!
cumincoriandercardamom.com
This is so unique!!!!
Richa
and delicious!:)
Shadé @ One Vegan Fatty
I’m starving now…lol!
Richa
make some fries:)
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vedgedout.com
Unreal! I need one of those grill mark pans STAT! Love this Richa
Richa
those grill pans are awesome.. no need to start up the bbq or oven!
anunrefinedvegan.com
Bring ON the savory snacking! Yummmmm!
Richa
Bring it on indeed!
laurelvb
I adore kabocha squash although I can only get it about one week a year. Boo. HOWEVER… Vegan Richa on the PPK Top 100 list. Holy Cow girl. Congrats on some well earned kudos. It’s like winning the Vegan Oscars. Well done!!!
Richa
You can make these without the squash!
Hell yeah!! super awesomeness indeed!!:))) Thank you Thank you:)
christine
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!
Richa
Oh yes.. these can be added instead of tempeh!:))
Genevieve
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 🙂
Richa
i know right.. add some spice to the batter. the taste changes drmatically!:) oh yes.. definitely make a bigger batch!
Sunday Morning Banana Pancakes
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!
Richa
yay, rescued your comment from spam again.. how do i tell blogger to unspam you!
chickpea flour is quite a versatile thing:)
i loved her post.. its hilarious and at the same time makes some excellent points!
Dixya
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.
Richa
great.. do let me know when you try it out..:) great to hear you keep trying plant based meals:)
Renard Moreau
[ Smiles ] I LOVE chickpeas and you have provided me with a recipe in which I can use it in.
Thank you!
Richa
Thank you. i love chickpeas too. do try these fries:)
Cadry's Kitchen
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!
Richa
i hope so too:) cant imagine people calling poison control on me 😉
true that about the chickpea:)
Kyleigh
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!
Richa
do try it out.. it is easy and addictive!:)
Caitlin
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 😉
Richa
Awesome! Make some fries:)
Awesome on the refried beans pizza too:) i am so glad you are loving that crust:)
Kristy
Richa- you have outdone yourself! These look so good! Kabocha is one of my favorite squashes too. 🙂
Richa
oh i need a squash break:) i keep getting a squash every week in the csa delivery and keep trying to finish them up!:)
Shannon
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.
Richa
Yup.. it should work with mashed sweet potato too.. use about a 1/3 cup:)