Gochujang Chickpea Salad Sandwich with Caramelized Onions

A creamy, spicy gochujang chickpea salad sandwich with spicy-sweet gochujang caramelized onions is a Korean-style twist on this lunchtime favourite! It’s hearty, satisfying, and full of FLAVOR! Choices for gluten-free , Nutfree , Soyfree

I really like cooking with gochujang, like in my gochujang bowl, peanut gochujang rice, gochujang cauliflower wings, gochujang lentils, and gochujang tofu sandwich. This gochujang chickpea salad is my most up-to-date gochujang recipe.

I’ve received a bunch of chickpea salad sandwiches on the weblog, as a result of there isn’t only one solution to make a chickpea salad sandwich. You possibly can add a number of completely different spices, herbs, flavors, sauces, and crunchy additions to make tremendous fast lunches which can be distinctive each single time! On this salad, we now have creamy dressing with spicy gochujang, paired with caramelized onions which were cooked with gochujang! Making them sweeter and spiced and lovely. You should use these onions in so some ways, on burgers, wraps, bowls and extra.

For this chickpea salad sandwich, we add gochujang into the creamy dressing for the chickpea salad. We additionally caramelize the onions. As soon as the onions are midway cooked, we add some gochujang to them, as properly, so that you get these sweet-and-spicy, scrumptious onions to prime the chickpea salad sandwich. Serve it in a bread or pita sandwich or in a wrap or lettuce wrap or as a dip with tortilla chips or pita chips!

Why You’ll Love Gochujang Chickpea Salad

• fast, straightforward make-ahead lunch
• full of FLAVOR!
• topped with sweet-and-spicy gochujang caramelized onions
• straightforward to make gluten-free, soy-free, and nut-free

How one can Serve It

You possibly can serve gochujang chickpea salad in your bread of alternative, like white sandwich bread, entire wheat, sourdough or pita, wraps, and so forth. Or, spoon it over salad greens for a extra veggie-forward lunch. Regardless of the way you serve it, gochujang chickpea salad is a good meal prep recipe to have within the fridge for fast lunches!

It’s scrumptious by itself, or serve with a salad, garlic fries, chips, and so forth.

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Gochujang Chickpea Salad Sandwich

A creamy, spicy gochujang chickpea salad sandwich with spicy-sweet gochujang caramelized onions is a Korean-style twist on this lunchtime favourite! It’s hearty, satisfying, and full of FLAVOR! Choices for gluten-free Soyfree and nutfree.

Prep Time15 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time20 minutes minutes

Whole Time35 minutes minutes

Course: lunch, One Pot meal, Sandwich

Delicacies: Korean

Key phrase: gochujang chickpea salad

Servings: 3

Energy: 219kcal

Writer: Vegan Richa

Components

For the Caramelized Onion

• 2 teaspoons oil
• 1 ½ cups (240 g) sliced onion
• 1 clove garlic minced
• ¼ teaspoon salt or extra, to style
• 1 teaspoon maple syrup or sugar
• 2 teaspoons gochujang paste

For the Chickpea Salad Sandwich

• 15 ounce (425.24 g) can of chickpeas drained, or 1 ½ cups of cooked chickpeas (or use different beans of alternative)
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup (59.15 ml) non-dairy yogurt or vegan mayo
• 2 teaspoons gochujang paste
• 1 teaspoon lime juice
• ¼ cup (40 g) chopped crimson onion
• ¼ cup (37.25 g) chopped bell pepper
• ¼ to ½ cup (4 g) chopped cilantro or different herbs of alternative

For meeting

• bread, wraps, lettuce leaves, and/or salad greens
• vegan mayo

Directions

Caramelize the onions.

• Warmth the oil in a big skillet over medium-high warmth. As soon as the oil is sizzling, add the onion and a very good pinch of the salt, and blend and prepare dinner till the onions begin to flip translucent, about 4 to five minutes. Stir often and add splash of water if the pan is drying out.

• Combine within the garlic, and prepare dinner for 1 to 2 minutes, then combine within the remainder of the salt together with the maple syrup and gochujang. Add a splash of water to assist the gochujang combine into the onion, then scale back the warmth to medium, and proceed cooking for an additional 3 to five minutes, or till the onions are beginning to flip golden and the garlic has cooked. Change off the warmth and put aside when you make the salad.

Make the gochujang chickpea salad.

• Add the chickpeas, spices, salt, yogurt, gochujang, and lime juice to a bowl. Combine properly, press and mash about half of the chickpeas utilizing a fork or masher. Combine within the onion, bell pepper, and cilantro. Now, style and alter taste, including extra non-dairy yogurt or vegan mayo, if wanted, for extra creaminess. (You can even fold among the caramelized onion into the chickpea combination.)

• Then, assemble the sandwich. Add a layer of vegan mayo onto one slice of the bread, and prime it with salad greens, lettuce, or recent herbs like cilantro or parsley. Generously pile on the gochujang chickpea salad after which the caramelized onions, and shut the sandwich with one other slice of bread. Wrap it up in parchment paper, slice, and both a pack in your lunch or serve now.

• Serve it in a bread as above or pita sandwich or in a wrap or lettuce wrap or as a dip with tortilla chips or pita chips!

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Notes

Dietary info doesn’t embody the bread or mayo, since kind and quantities will range.
To make a lettuce wrap or common wrap, add the chickpea salad and caramelized onion to your wrap of alternative, and drizzle some vegan mayo. Wrap and pack for lunch or eat.
To make it gluten-free, use gochujang that’s gluten-free and use gluten-free bread or make lettuce wraps.
It’s nut-free if you happen to use nut-free vegan yogurt and mayo.
For soy-free select soy-free gochujang, non-dairy yogurt, and mayo. For soy-free, you may also substitute the gochujang with soy-free chili garlic sauce or chili crisp.
Make soy-free gluten-free gochujang by mixing collectively 2 teaspoons every of: gochugaru pepper flakes, chickpea miso, coconut aminos and 1 teaspoon maple syrup.
Storage:Make the chickpea salad and the caramelized onion and retailer refrigerated in closed containers for upto 2 days. Use to make sandwiches or wraps as wanted. You possibly can retailer the premade sandwich within the fridge for just a few hours. The salad will make the bread soggy if saved for too lengthy.  
Variations: You can even add different crunchy veggies to your gochujang chickpea salad, like celery. For the herbs, attempt including dill or thyme to the chickpea salad to combine issues up, if you happen to like.

Diet

Diet Details

Gochujang Chickpea Salad Sandwich

Quantity Per Serving

Energy 219
Energy from Fats 54

% Day by day Worth*

Fats 6g9%

Saturated Fats 1g6%

Polyunsaturated Fats 2g

Monounsaturated Fats 2g

Sodium 630mg27%

Potassium 420mg12%

Carbohydrates 35g12%

Fiber 8g33%

Sugar 8g9%

Protein 9g18%

Vitamin A 518IU10%

Vitamin C 28mg34%

Calcium 106mg11%

Iron 2mg11%

* P.c Day by day Values are based mostly on a 2000 calorie weight-reduction plan.

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Components and Substitutions

• oil – To caramelize the onions. Use inventory for oilfree
• onion – You’ll make caramelized onions and use some recent onion within the gochujang chickpea salad too.
• garlic – To taste the onions.
• salt – To assist the onions caramelize and produce out the flavors within the chickpea salad.
• maple syrup – Provides a bit of candy to offset the warmth of the gochujang within the salad.
• gochujang paste – Select gluten-free and/or soy-free, if wanted. You can even substitute chili garlic sauce or chili crisp for the same taste if you happen to can’t discover gochujang.
• chickpeas – The bottom for the salad. Use canned or selfmade. Or use white beans of alternative
• spices – Garlic powder and black pepper additionally season the chickpea salad.
• non-dairy yogurt – Makes the chickpea salad creamy.
• lime juice – For tang.
• bell pepper – For crunch! Be happy so as to add different chopped, crunchy veggies like celery.
• cilantro – Or use your herbs of alternative. Dill, parsley, and/or thyme are scrumptious on this recipe.
• bread – Use bread, pita, wraps, our lettuce wraps to make this gochujang chickpea salad sandwich.
• vegan mayo or non dairy yogurt – For creaminess within the sandwich.

How one can Make Gochujang Chickpea Salad Sandwiches

Warmth the oil in a big skillet over medium-high warmth. As soon as the oil is sizzling, add the onion and a very good pinch of the salt, and blend and prepare dinner till the onions begin to flip translucent, 4-5 minutes. Stir often and add splashes of water if wanted.

Combine within the garlic, and prepare dinner for 1 to 2 minutes, then combine within the remainder of the salt together with the maple syrup and gochujang. Add a splash of water to assist the gochujang combine into the onion, then scale back the warmth to medium, and proceed cooking for an additional 3 to five minutes, or till the onions are beginning to flip golden and the garlic has cooked. Change off the warmth and put aside when you make the salad.

Add the chickpeas, spices, salt, yogurt, gochujang, and lime juice to a bowl. Combine properly, mashing about half of the chickpeas.

Combine within the onion, bell pepper, and cilantro. Now, style and alter taste, including extra non-dairy yogurt or vegan mayo, if wanted, for extra creaminess. You can even fold among the caramelized onion into the chickpea combination.

Then, assemble the sandwich. Add a layer of vegan mayo onto one slice of the bread, and prime it with salad greens, lettuce, or recent herbs like cilantro or parsley.

Generously pile on the gochujang chickpea salad after which the caramelized onions, and shut the sandwich with one other slice of bread.

Wrap it up in parchment paper, slice, and both a pack in your lunch or serve now.