Falafel Recipe
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Loading... - Noah Arthur
- 30 May 2022
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Falafel are crispy Mediterranean, Middle Eastern fritters and famous Arabic street food. You can make falafel with chickpeas (Chana) or fava beans. Fresh herbs, onions, and dried spices are added for seasoning and flavour.
Having tried it at various places upscale, as well as streets in Dubai on various occasions, I feel I can make pretty decent homemade falafel. On my recent Dubai trip, I tasted these along with other Arabic delicacies, so I thought to share couple of dishes that I tried there.
There are many types of falafel recipes I am sharing a simple and most popular chickpeas falafel recipe. It is easy and even beginners can make delicious chickpeas falafel with this recipe.
These Falafel Are
1. Arabic/middle eastern street food.
2. Vegan, gluten-free, vegetarian snack.
3. You can make baked falafel or authentic falafel which are deep fried.
4. You can meal prep them in advance and are freezer friendly.
5. Serve them with hummus or pita bread both are perfect meal for vegetarians and vegans.
Ingredients
Chickpeas: Use dried chickpeas which are soaked for 6 hours. A couple of tablespoons chickpeas flour/besan. Do not use canned chickpeas.
Herbs & Seasonings: Salt, Coriander powder, Paprika, Cumin, Red chilli, Parsley, Jalapeno, Coriander
Fresh: Onion, you can use either white onions, yellow onions or red onions. Garlic chopped (optional).
Fresh Herbs: You can add fresh Parsley, mint leaves, cilantro, carrot tops or wild dill to make falafel mixture.
Flour: Use gram flour or chickpeas flour for binding the mixture. All purpose flour tastes slightly pasty and raw. I suggest to avoid that.
Baking powder: It helps in making fluffy falafels. Especially when you are making baked falafel using a big pinch makes them fluffy and soft inside.
Oil: Use any high smoking point vegetable oil. I prefer to use rice bran oil or peanut oil for frying.
Chickpeas Falafel Recipe
Making Falafel Mixture
· Soak dried chickpeas overnight. In case you forget to plan much ahead at-least minimum soaking of 4-5 hours in hot water works great too. (photo 1)
· In a Food processor, blitz drained soaked chickpeas with herbs, spices, chickpeas flour. (photo 2)
· The texture of the mixture after grinding should be coarse like this. (photo 3)
Shape Falafels
· Shape them into balls or patties if you like that. (photo 4)
Cooking Falafels - 3 Methods
Frying
Heat oil in a wok and heat vegetable oil till smoking point. Deep fry in hot oil for the best results. (photo 5) This is traditional method of cooking best falafel that are crispy outside and soft inside. (photo 6).
You can also make pan fried falafel at home. For pan frying falafels instead of shaping into balls shape falafel into patty shape.
Baking
You can bake falafels. For baking shape them into flat patties and place them in a single layer onto a baking sheet. Bake falafels at 180C/375F in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Read More…
