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These chickpea cutlets are healthy, packed with nutrients and absolutely delicious. Making them takes little effort and only a handful of ingredients. Serve them with some roasted veggies or a risotto and lunch/dinner will be a success!
When I was a child, one of my favorite dishes was cotolette alla milanese (milanese veal cutlets). Once I stopped eating meat, I had to say goodbye to my moms' cutlets as well.
This until I found out that you can make delicious chickpea cutlets in no time, and they taste absolutely delicious!
These cutlets have become a recurring dish in my kitchen and everyone loves them! They are super crispy, flavorful and so simple to make! You have to try them!
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Ingredients
To make these chickpea cutlets we only need the following ingredients:
- chickpea flour
- breadcrumbs
- all-purpose flour
- cornstarch
- garlic powder
- onion powder
- olive oil (I forgot to put it in the picture below)
- smoked paprika.
Chickpea flour
The main ingredient for our cutlets is chickpea flour (also commonly known as garbanzo flour or gram flour).
You can buy it or you can make it out of dry chickpeas if you have a powerful blender. The only difference is that self processed chickpea flour is usually not as thinly ground as store-bought flour is, which means that it absorbs less water. Use the one you prefer.
How to make the Chickpea Cutlets
Making the cutlets is super easy. All we need to do is mixing all the ingredients until we have a lumps-free mixture.
The mixture should be firm and only be slightly sticky. If it's too sticky add more flour and mix well.
Breading
Once our chickpea-mixture is ready we can divide it in 4 portions.
Then we put the breadcrumbs into a large dish, we add in one chickpea-ball at a time and flatten the cutlet using our fingers.
Once the cutlet is formed we flip it so that each side is covered in breadcrumbs.
Et voilà! Once all the cutlets are done we can cook them!
Cooking method: Frying vs Baking
We can both fry or bake the cutlets. If we want to fry them, we heat a generous amount of vegetable oil in a large saucepan and we fry the cutlets on both sides for 2-3 minutes.
In case we feel like baking them, we have to preheat the oven to 200 °C (390 °F), set the cutlets on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake them for 15 minutes or until golden and crispy.
How to Store the chickpea cutlets
You can put the cutlets in an airtight container and store them in the fridge for up to 3 days or you can freeze them and thaw them whenever you want!
You can then heat them in the oven at 200 °C (390 °F) for 5 minutes.
More Meat Substitutes Recipes:
- Seitan Kabobs with Sweet Curry Marinade
- How to Make Seitan Shredded Chicken
- How to Make Seitan Roast Beef
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📖 Recipe/Rezept
Chickpea Cutlets
Ingredients
- 100 g chickpea flour
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp onion powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 100 ml water
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 tbsp white flour
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients (except breadcrumbs and vegetable oil) in a large bowl. The mixture should be compact and only slightly sticky. If too sticky, add a little flour.
- Divide the mixture in 4 portions and form 4 balls.
- Put breadcrumbs into a bowl, place a ball on top and press with your fingers in order to form a cutlet (about 3-4 mm thick). Flip to cover with breadcrumbs.
- Repeat the process with the remaining balls.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large frying pan. Fry the cutlets on both sides for about 2-3 minutes. Serve hot. Enjoy!
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Jay Richer says
Hello Carlo. Please discuss with me the fact that vegan meals using vital wheat gluten, soy, and a host of other ingredients high in oxolates, will lead to calcium kidney stones. I am vegan, I had horribly painful kidney stones within one year, all before I realized that my diet was causing the stones.
Tofu and The Plantgang says
So simple, but really delicious... thanks for the recipe!
Beata G. says
Perfect, delicious ! Thank You ! 🙂
Christine says
Hi can these be cooked in an air fryer ?
carlocao says
Hi Chrstine, you can definitely cook them in an airfryer. Just spray them with little oil and cook them until crispy. X Carlo
CJ says
The only reason I gave this recipe a 4 star rating is because, I too, had a super mushy mixture (I didn't have a scale at the time to weigh ingredients). I kept adding more chickpea flour and all purpose flour, and upped the seasoning until the mixture was somewhat dry enough to roll into balls, and then patty in the breadcrumbs.
I ended up having a lot of patties, but I was so very happy because these patties are DELICIOUS!!! I froze a bunch, and would warm up in a pan to top salads...also made sandwiches, and even "chicken" parmesan!
I now have a food scale...I purchased just so I can make this recipe again.
Thanks for such a GREAT recipe!!
Suzana says
Hi, do you know how this could be made gluten-free? Could I sub wheat flour with oat flour or rice flour? Tnx!
carlocao says
Dear Suzana, yes you can 🙂 let me know how they turn out. Best, Carlo
Hanna says
no matter what I did the mix was just a mush! I added like 0.5 cup of white flour extra and starch flour .... still mush..... cant make it onto a cutlet
carlocao says
Hi Hanna, are you sure you weighted the ingredients correctly? If the dough it's too wet add more breadcrumbs and you'll fix it 🙂
Bea says
Hello! Looks amazing. I was wondering, breadcrumbs aren't listed in the ingredients, but they are in the instructions, should I use regular breadcrumbs, or can i use more chickpea flour? Thanks!
carlocao says
Hi Bea, I'm updating the recipe. I never tried coating them with more chickpea flour so I can't really halp you with that. I suggest you use breadcrumbs. I hope this helps 🙂
carlocao says
Hi Bea, I used around q cup of breadcrumbs. I fixed the recipe now, thank you for your comment 🙂
Laura says
Hey Carlo! Do you use cooked or raw chickpes flour? Would love to try them!
Thanks,
Laura
carlocao says
Laura, I always use raw chickpea flour. I didn't even know that there was a cooked chickpea flour to be honest :D! Please let me know how they turn out 🙂
Cheryl Rushton says
Can it be made with chick peas once placing in food processor?
carlocao says
Hi Cheryl, Yes you can totally use your food-processor to turn your chickpeas into chickpea-flour. Just be aware that your food-processor or mixer has to be powerful to do so. Hugs, carlo
Mary says
I made this recipe, and OMG! super easy and delicious.my kids love them.thanks for sharing
carlocao says
Yay! I'm so happy you and your kids loved the recipe! Thank you for letting em know! Hugs, Carlo