This chickpea omelette is the best vegan alternative to the regular egg omelette. This makes a quick and easy breakfast recipe that is delicious, vegan, and gluten-free.
This chickpea omelette is one of the easiest vegan breakfast recipes. I love thisย vegan omelette, aka chickpea omelet. This is a quick dish that takes less than 30 minutes to prepare.
It's also filling because of high-protein chickpeasย and is loaded with flavors. With the addition of a pinch of black salt, the flavor resembles that of an egg omelet. Fold in some sautรฉed greens or scrambled tofu to make this a filling breakfast. This is not only vegan but also gluten-free.
Read my Vegan Savory French Toast recipe that is made eggless with chickpea flour. This chickpea omelette is the best vegan alternative to the egg omelet.
This is versatile and can play around with spices to give it a particular flavor, like Indian Veg Omelette or Tomato Omelette. This is very similar to this chickpea omelet, but with Indian spices, which makes the taste a little different than this vegan omelet.
Why are we using chickpeas for our vegan omelette?
Chickpea flour is an excellent substitute for egg recipes. This omelette gives you an authentic flavour (or close to real) of egg omelettes. Also, when we add black salt to the chickpea flour (in place of regular sea salt), it gives a strong egg-like flavour to the omelette or similar recipes. In terms of taste and texture, it resembles that of the real egg omelettes.
How to make a chickpea omelette?
This chickpea omelette is a simple recipe with few pantry staples. Here I have added only onions and tomatoes to this. Also, some fresh herbs like cilantro leaves or parsley will be great. If you want to make it spicy, you may add a green chili or deseeded jalapeno.
You can also add other vegetables of your choice. However, you have to chop the veggies into small chunks and sautรฉ them before adding them to the batter. I have not added them to the batter. Instead, I will serve the sautรฉed greens as a topping or stuff them.
Ingredients:
Chickpea flour, nutritional yeast, black salt, pepper, chili flakes (optional), onion, tomatoes, veggies (optional), olive oil.
Instructions:
Take all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add water slowly, mixing it so that it won't have any lumps inside.
(Don't add all the water together as it will result in lumps in the batter. Add water in batches, mix them well, then add a little more water, and so on. Make a batter of flowing consistency (though not very watery thin).
Heat oil in a cast-iron skillet or non-stick pan. Pour in ยผ cup of batter and flip the pan, rotating so that the batter will flow naturally and make an evenly spread omelette.
Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 3 minutes on medium-low flame. Then flip it and cook the other end for another 3-4 minutes without closing the lid.
Remove from heat once cooked evenly on both sides. Serve with any dip or toppings of your choice. Your vegan omelette is ready in just 30 minutes. If you are making for just one serving, it won't take more than 10 minutes, even.
Serving Ideas -
Make a sandwich with bread slices and this vegan omelet. Or, stuff this with some nutrition-packed sautรฉed greens and some tofu scramble. Here I have taken scrambled tofu and wilted spinach with garlic. Mushroom sautรฉ or sautรฉed green peas are also quick vegan stuffings for this chickpea omelette.
Chickpea Omelette (Vegan omelette)
Chickpea Omelette - Vegan Omelette
Equipment
Ingredients
- ยฝ cup chickpea flour
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- ยฝ cup water or as required for batter
- ยฝ tsp black salt
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1 medium tomato finely chopped
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp parsley or cilantro leaves chopped (for omelette & garnish)
- 2 pinches baking soda (optional)
For serving - tofu scramble and spinach
- 1 cup scrambled tofu with spinach or any topping of choice
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add chickpea flour, nutritional yeast, salt.
- Add water gradually mixing continuously using the whisk.
- Make it lumps free completely.
- Now add chopped onions, tomatoes, if any veggies (optional) to the batter.
- Give it a nice stir.
- Keep the batter in flowing consistency.
- Add a pinch of baking soda to make the omelette fluffier (optional)
- Heat oil in a skillet or a non-stick pan.
- Pour in ยผ cup of batter to the skillet or pan.
- Flip the pan slightly with a flick of the wrist. This will allow the batter to spread evenly.
- Keep the flame on medium flame for 2 minutes (since this takes time to get cooked perfectly).
- Close it with a lid and cook on low flame for 2 minutes.
- Now the base layer is cooked with dry top side.
- Perfectly done crepe leaves the pan automatically.
- Flip the crepe carefully with help of a spatula.
- Keep flame on medium low flame.
- Cook for another 3 - 4 minutes.
- Remove from pan once both sides look cooked.
- Garnish with some more cilantro or parsley.
Serving ideas
- 1. Serve it with scrambled tofu, spinach for a full meal.
- 2. Place it in slices of bread and make yourvegan bread omelette breakfast.
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Notes
- ย While making the batter, keep it lumps-free completely.
- Add water to the dry flour slowly and gradually mixing the flour smoothly. Make in batches mixing slowly in place of adding all water at once.
- Baking soda makes the omelette fluffier.ย
- If adding soda add it at the end of the preparation.
- Take a seasoned iron skillet or non-stick pan for this recipe.
- If adding extra veggies, saute them prior to adding in the batter. But if adding only chopped onion and tomatoes, no need to saute before. Add them directly to the batter.
- Take time to cook both sides perfectly as unlike egg omelette, chickpea omelette takes time to get cooked.ย
- Keep the flame on medium-low to low as it may look cooked on outside (even with burnt patches) yet remain uncooked within.
Nutrition
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