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Cheap & Easy, Recipes, Sauces and condiments, Vegan on a Budget

Easy Blender Mayo

The quantities here are suitable for making coleslaw accompanying a meal for 4 people.

One of the ingredients in this recipe is the liquid leftover from cooking chickpeas. It’s commonly obtained from the liquid drained from a can of chickpeas and called aquafaba. Of course, you can make it yourself as a co-product of cooking chick peas from scratch (the cheapest way of preparing them).

Ingredients 

  • 65 ml of aquafaba
  • 1½ teaspoons of mustard powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • 1½ teaspoons of lemon juice
  • 200 ml of vegetable oil
  • 1 teaspoon of cider vinegar

Electric hand-held blender method

  • Place all ingredients in a bowl.
  • Blend with an electric hand-held blender until you have the consistency you want.

Save money: the hand-whisk method

  • A hand whisk can be used instead of an electric blender.  
  • Except oil, place all other ingredients in a bowl.
  • Whisk all ingredients whilst slowly pouring in the oil.
  • Continue whisking until you have the consistency you want.
Cheap & Easy, Main dishes, Recipes, Starters and soups, Vegan on a Budget

Air-Fryer Chick Pea Fritters

Makes around 26 fritters so you may want to cut the quantities below in half.


Cost based on tinned chick peas = £3.80 for 26 fritters; £1.90 for 13 fritters at Lidl prices (March 2025) but they don’t sell nutritional yeast so the price for that is from Tod Almighty opposite the Golden Lion (the cost of ingredients would be less if dried chick peas are used).

Preparation time: 20 minutes.

Air frying time: 15-25 minutes

Ingredients

480 grams or 2 cans of cooked chickpeas.
1
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour or chick pea flour for a gluten-free version
40 grams nutritional yeast (Engevita)
2-3 tablespoons dried parsley
1 medium onion finely chopped
2 cloves garlic crushed or chopped
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
½ teaspoon salt
2 twists black pepper
Oil for coating prior to cooking.

Method

    Preheat the air fryer to 200 degrees C.

    Add all of the ingredients except oil to a large mixing bowl and mash with a fork or potato masher. The mixture should sticky enough to form into fritters. Add water if necessary.

    Shape the mixture into small & flat fritters (small fritters are quicker to cook – try a roughly loaded tablespoon full of the mix per fritter).

    Use a brush, spray or fingers to apply a minimal coating of oil to both sides of the uncooked fritters.

    Place the fritters in the air fryer, leaving spaces between them.

    Cook for a total of 15-25 minutes or until golden brown. Turn over half way through the cooking period.

    Remove from the air fryer and serve.

    Photo of a person using a potato masher to mash chickpeas for this recipe. Also shows ingredients containers and trays for the air-fryer

    Serve the fritters on their own, with a squeeze of lemon, a tomato sauce or a tahini sauce, They go well with pitta bread too.

    

This recipe is also suitable for pan frying in 2 tablespoons of oil or baking in an oven at 200 degrees C for 20 minutes or so. However, an oven is a more costly way to cook than frying on an induction hob or cooking in an air-fryer…it also contributes more to climate change.

    1. If you have dried chickpeas, they will double their weight when cooked properly. So 480 grams of soaked (overnight) and cooked chickpeas requires 240 grammes of dried chickpeas.

      Chick peas are also known as garbanzo beans in Spain and America.

      You can reserve the liquid in the cans or after cooking chick peas. This liquid is called aquafaba and can be used in other recipes mainly as an egg replacer. ↩︎