Better than Tuna: Vegan Tuna Salad 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!
This chickpea vegan "tuna" salad is a yummy alternative meal (or meals for up to a week if made ahead - and if you don't eat it all first). It's also less expensive than tuna or chicken salad.
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!
How to make Better than Tuna Vegan Tuna Salad :
Ingredients
Instructions
This chickpea vegan "tuna" salad is a yummy alternative meal (or meals for up to a week if made ahead - and if you don't eat it all first). It's also less expensive than tuna or chicken salad.
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!
How to make Better than Tuna Vegan Tuna Salad :
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.
- Visit Better than Tuna Vegan Tuna Salad @ fullofbeans.us for full instructions and recipe notes.
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