Recipe for Vegan Chicken Nuggets
Vegan chicken recipe from chickpea/garbanzo bean and common ingredients to imitate nuggets or patties consistency, can be serve as fingerfoods, pasta topping or bread filling.
Ingredients
- 1 cup chickpea pulp
- 1½ cup breadcrumb
- 1 Tbsp no-chicken base or use your choice of vegan chicken seasoning
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 Tbsp tamari soy sauce
- ½ cup vital wheat gluten
- ½ cup water
- 3 Tbsp cornstarch
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp ground pepper
- 1 qt high temperature oil for frying
Instructions
To process chickpea pulp from can
- If you're using whole new can chickpea, simply pop the whole can in blender and blend well.
- Use a fine mesh cotton to strain the pulp. Preserve the extracted juice for chickpea milk or other recipe.
Faux Chicken nugget
- In a small bowl/plate combine 1 cup of breadcrumb, cornstarch and salt.
- Start heating the frying oil as well.
- In a larger mixing bowl, Combine chickpea pulp, ½ cup breadcrumb, seasoning, yeast, soy sauce and ground pepper.
- When they're finely mixed, add the gluten flour powder and 2 Tbsp of water.
- Knead with your hand for 2-3 minutes until they're combine and stretchy. If the mixture is too dry, add some more water one spoon of a time. Don't do overboard.
- When done kneading lay the whole thing over a non-stick surface (parchment paper). Pin-rolling it flat and cut to your desired shape (ie. nugget or larger patties).
- Dip these nugget in the breadcrumb+cornflour to coat and deep-fry until golden.
- Serve these hot as is or topping over pasta.