Chickpea 'Egg' Salad Sandwich

The best Chickpea ‘Egg’ Salad is perfect for sandwiches, wraps, or scooping with crackers for a healthy and filling vegan lunch, dinner or meal prep!

INGREDIENTS YOU’LL NEED

This chickpea egg salad is easily customizable, giving you options to sub-elements when needed. If you don’t care for an ingredient, feel free to omit it, and you’ll still have a great mock egg salad!

Here is everything you will need, plus substitution ideas:

• Chickpeas – use canned or freshly cooked

• Celery – adds a cooling crunch, but can be substituted with finely diced carrot or capsicum

• Red onion – sub with green onion, chives, shallot or white onion

• Pickles – Use sweet pickle relish or dill pickles

• Vegan mayo – Use our Kingland Dairy Free Mayonnaise

• Dijon mustard – can sub with whole grain, brown or regular

• Dill – fresh is best, but dried is okay too. Adjust to taste (can be omitted)

• Onion + garlic powder – adds a nice flavour boost

• Turmeric – gives the egg salad a golden hue, but can be omitted from an egg white salad

• Salt – use regular salt or for a more eggy flavour use black salt, aka Kala Namak

  
  

HOW TO MAKE CHICKPEA EGG SALAD

• Mash the chickpeas. Roughly mash the chickpeas with the back of a strong fork, potato masher or food processor. The better you mash them, the better they will hold together.

• Add remaining ingredients. To the chickpeas, add the remaining ingredients.

• Mix to combine. If making sandwiches, spread on sandwich bread layered with leafy greens, slice in half and enjoy!

And that’s all it takes to make a darn good mock egg salad using chickpeas and a little creativity!

So bon appetit, and eat more chickpeas!

HOW TO STORE + MEAL PREP

• Refrigerator: Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 – 6 days, in a tightly covered container. Give a good stir before serving.

• Freezer: Freezing is not recommended. It’s best to make it as needed, using it within a week.

• Meal Prep: Make this salad ahead, or assemble sandwiches, and keep stored in a to-go container or bento box for a quick grab-n-go meal.