Chickpea Flour Frittata

This Chickpea Flour Frittata recipe is made with 5 ingredients and filled with a combo of vegetables for a delicious gluten-free, vegan breakfast.

Bonus, these vegetable frittatas contain only 83 calories per serving and are packed with 5 grams of fulfilling plant-based protein.

What’s Chickpea Flour Frittata?

A chickpea frittata is an egg-free frittata recipe with chickpea flour and water.

When combined, these two ingredients create an egg-like texture that makes delicious frittata suitable for vegans and vegetarians.

Chickpea frittata can’t be made with any other flours.

Also, you can’t make chickpea frittata from canned chickpeas. You must use chickpea flour made from unroasted cooked chickpeas.

How To Make Chickpea Flour Frittata

This vegan chickpea frittata recipe is super easy to make!

Key Ingredients

All you need to make 12 muffin size frittata with chickpea flour are a few basic ingredients:

• Chickpea Flour – read my paragraph below to pick the right chickpea flour from the store.
• Baking Powder
• Garlic Powder
• Salt and Kala Namak, also called black salt. It adds a Sulphur flavor similar to eggs in vegan egg-free dishes.
• Italian Seasoning
• Cumin, Smoked Paprika
• Nutritional Yeast – adds a cheesy flavor to the vegan frittata and a lot of Vitamin B12.
• Vegetables – I mix steamed diced sweet potatoes, trimmed kale, and red bell pepper. However, feel free to use any vegetable you love in your crustless quiche, like spinach, stir-fried mushrooms, or corn kernels.

Making The Chickpea Batter

First, prepare the chickpea flour batter.

It’s your egg-free binder in the frittata. In a large bowl, sift the chickpea flour to remove any lumps and stir in spices, salt, and pepper.

Then, whisk in water until it forms a smooth batter.

The batter won’t be as thick as pancake batter, it’s more liquid, and that’s what you want. Set aside in the mixing bowl.

Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables for your frittata.

Cooking The Vegetables

In a large non-stick skillet, warm olive oil and cooked finely chopped kale, bell pepper, mushroom, or any vegetables you love.

If you use hard vegetables like potatoes or sweet potatoes, as seen in my picture below, steam before adding them to the skillet.

Stir fry until the vegetables are fragrant and cooked—season with salt and pepper.

Stir the cooked vegetable into the chickpea flour batter.

Baking The Frittata

Then, spray a non-stick 12-hole muffin tin with olive oil and fill each muffin tin with the batter – about 1/4 cups per muffin tin.

If you are using an 8-hole jumbo muffin tin, you may fit 1/2 cup batter, but it takes longer to set in the middle.

Bake the chickpea flour frittata in the center rack of your oven preheated to 350°F (180°C) for 20 to 30 minutes.

Don’t overbake your frittata, or they dry out very quickly in the center.

Baking As A Crustless Quiche

You can also bake this recipe in one 8-inch square baking dish.

The best dishes to bake this egg-free frittata are ceramic dishes. They keep the frittata moist and soft.

First, spray oil all over the surface of your baking dish.

Then, pour the frittata mixture and bake until set in the center.

Chickpea Frittata Fillings

There are many vegetables that you can add to a vegan frittata.

If you want to use root vegetables like potatoes, sweet potatoes, and turnips, it’s recommended to pre-cook the vegetables before adding them to the batter.

You can steam or boil the vegetable to tender their flesh before stir-frying with the remaining vegetables.

The best filling for vegan frittatas are:

• Mushrooms – you must stir fry mushrooms slices, or they release too much water in the batter, and the frittata won’t cook through.
• Onion
• Corn kernel
• Vegan cheese
• Cooked black beans
• Spinach – finely chopped
• Green asparagus
• Cooked lentils

Taste And Texture

The taste and texture of this egg-free chickpea frittata are pretty unbelievable.

It tastes eggy, thanks to Kala Namak. It’s creamy and chewy like egg bake dishes but without the eggs!

Serving Chickpea Frittatas

These chickpea frittatas are very good on-the-go breakfast, easy to carry in a box, and eat by hand.

However, they can be a bit dry, and we found them tastier way topped with some vegan sour cream, coconut yogurt, or some dips like:

Storage Instructions

Also, these vegan chickpea frittatas are great to make breakfasts ahead for a week. You can store them in an airtight box in the fridge or freeze them for later.

Thaw in the fridge the day before and rewarm in preheated oven on medium heat at 280°F (140°C) until hot.

You can also microwave these frittatas for a quick hot lunch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Chickpea Flour Should I Choose?

Did you know that chickpea flour contains more protein per serving than eggs?

There are 22 grams of protein in 100 grams of chickpea flour compared to 13 grams in 100 grams of cooked eggs. Amazing right?

Another interesting point, there is 27% iron in chickpea flour compared to 7% in eggs.

The confusing thing about chickpea flour is the different names you can find at the store.

There are a few names for chickpea flour:

• Chickpea Flour – the classic name
• Chana Flour is made from roasted chickpea and is not recommended in this recipe.
• Garbanzo Flour or gram flour or besan flour. This is the one you need to make chickpea frittata. It’s made from unroasted chickpeas and is less liquid absorbent to make a creamy egg-free frittata.

Also, remember that chickpea flour forms lumps very easily.

So for any recipe calling for chickpea flour, it’s better to sift the flour first to remove any lumps and create a smooth frittata chickpea batter.

Is Chickpea Frittata Low-Carb?

Chickpea flour is not keto-friendly, but if you are looking to cut the carbs on a vegan diet, then a chickpea flour frittata is considered a low-carb meal.

In fact, one serving of chickpea frittata contains between 8 grams and 10 grams of net carbs, depending on the vegetables you add to your filling.

Of course, to keep this vegan frittata low-carb, focus on low-carb friendly vegetables and avoid starchy vegetables like potatoes, sweet potatoes, or corn!

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