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That's because the recipe is vegan, the chickpeas are used as a crab substitute.

So they’re chickpea cakes. 🙂

Pretty much. For an actual vegan crab recipe, I suggest homegrown hand gathered's recipe for lions mane crab cake. https://homegrownhandgathered.com/lions-mane-crab-cakes/