Vegan Tuna Sandwich

This vegan tuna salad, prepared with chickpeas and jackfruit, tastes incredibly delicious and thanks to the jackfruit, it has the perfect, fibrous structure we know from tuna salads. The chickpea tuna gets its unbelievable sea and fish taste from wakame flakes and kelp powder.

This gives your vegetarian tuna salad a great, hearty seafood taste. Prepare this no tuna salad as a vegan tuna salad sandwich or as a topping for your next salad bowl.

You simply prepare this vegan tuna fish recipe and it has a great taste so you won't miss the traditional.

Course Salad

Keyword chickpeas, cold, dairy-free, easy, egg-free, jackfruit, lunch, oil-free, plant-based, quick, salad, sandwich, simple, tuna, untuna, vegan, vegetarian, weekday, whole food

Author Jasmin

Equipment

Ingredients

1 can chickpeas + 3 tablespoon aquafaba
1 can jackfruit in brine not syrup, very important
3 wakame flakes
½ teaspoon or more kelp powder
½ teaspoon sea salt opt
2 tablespoon tahini or nut butter if you do not like the taste of tahini
2 teaspoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon onion powder and garlic powder
possibly season to taste

Instructions

You can start the evening before.
Wash the jackfruit and cut off the hard part.
Let the fibrous parts sit in hot water and add 3 wakame flakes or other seaweed. We need this to get the typical sea / fish taste. Let it sit for at least 2 hours or overnight.
The next day, rinse the jackfruit and remove the wakame flakes.
Now let's take the chickpeas and rinse them. It is important to catch the liquid from the can, the aquafaba. You can use it for this recipe, or as an egg or oil substitute in another recipe.
Now add half of the chickpeas, tahini or nut butter and aquafaba, freshly squeezed lemon juice in one food processor and mix until creamy.
If it's not creamy enough, add a little more aquafaba.
Add kelp powder, which is optional but adds all of the flavor, and add soy sauce, onion powder, and garlic powder. Mix it until the spices are well combined.
Add the remaining chickpeas and jackfruit and use the pulse function of the food processor.
We want to keep the texture of the jackfruit.
Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Video

Notes

Read More Tips & Tricks in the Post above.