This easy tuna patties recipe replaces potato with chickpea, mix everything together and pan-sear until golden. It’s crunchy but not oily, also filling. Serve it as a snack or a side dish with rice.
I pre-soaked and pressure cooked 200 g (dried) chickpeas (you can also use canned chickpeas) . Part of it made into an Indian dish Malai Kofta, and I cooked the rest into this tuna patties.
This kind of patties are usually cooked with potato, which I find less nutritious. Chickpea provides us rich protein which potato cannot : say chickpea has 19 g protein per 100 g, while potato only have 2 g of protein.
Additionally, using dried chickpea won’t cost you much. For example, a bag of 2 kg chickpea only costs around £3.5.
Ingredients
Makes 6 pcs（around 6cm Ø ）
- 200 g cooked chickpea
- ½ tin of tuna (90 g)
- ½ small onion, diced
- a handful of parsley, chopped
- 1 tbsp flour
- ½ tbsp starch
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- black pepper
- lemon juice
How to Make Chickpea and Tuna Patties
- If using dry chickpea, you need to soak it in advance for at least 8 hours, then cook it in salted water with a pressure cooker, around 10 mins. If chickpea didn’t get soak, you might need more cooking time, like 50 mins. If using canned chickpea, then no effort is required, super convenient!
- Blitz the cooked chickpea and all other ingredients together, not too fine.
- Form the mixture into 6 patties.
- Heat some oil in a frying pan and fry the patties until golden. Dipping sauce can be ketchup or yogurt herbs dressing.
