Better than Tuna: Vegan Tuna Salad
We are often asked what we pack for lunch. Portable and easy meals, like the classic tuna salad sandwich, are an essential for folks heading off to school or work for the day. This chickpea vegan tuna salad is an easy, satisfying and delicious vegan alternative to the usual non-vegan sandwich fillers.
This vegan tuna salad has been a go-to meal option in the Full of Beans household for quite a while. We have found that it doesn’t need to be restricted to sandwiches! It is wonderful as a topping for a plate of greens, on a rice cake, or straight out of the container with a fork!
Better than Tuna
Prep Time: 20 Total Time: 20 Category: Sandwich, salad Cuisine: American
Description
Portable and easy meals, like the classic tuna salad sandwich, are an essential. This chickpea vegan tuna salad is a delicious vegan alternative. Try it!
Ingredients
(2) 15oz cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained (or 3 cups cooked chickpeas)
1 shredded carrot
2 stalks celery, finely diced
1/2 small red onion, finely diced
Just Mayo or alternative vegan mayonaise, approximately 1/4 cup
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
optional: extras like mustard, dill, etc
Instructions
Roughly mash the chickpeas in a medium size bowl. I like to leave some chunks of the peas in the mash.
Add the carrot, celery, onion, salt and pepper and mix well with a fork
Add mayo to desired texture of creaminess (I find tastes really vary in this regard)
Notes
It can be eaten right away, but I find that if it sits in the fridge for an hour or so the flavors meld nicely together. This works for a sandwich and is also wonderful on a bed of greens or with crackers.
Options: we had a blog reader make this with several additions: dulse, relish, mustard, cayenne. They really loved it and we encourage you to take this recipe and run with it! Make it your own 🙂
We happen to love adding dill to it, a heaping teaspoon is just about right!