Amazing falafel
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24 min
This is a great Middle Eastern dish, simple to make and a real hit every time I make it (and amazingly cheap too!), is also good cold the next day for a lunch box.
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 2 cans chickpeas
- 1 Scotch bonnet chilli
- 1 green medium chilli
- 400g breadcrumbs
- 2 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 2 cloves crushed garlic
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1 good handful of fresh coriander coarsely chopped
- 1 good handful of fresh flat leaf parsley
- juice of 1 lime
- groundnut oil for frying
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:4min ›
Ready in:24min
- If making by hand mash the chickpeas, or place in a food processor
- Heat the cumin and coriander seeds in a dry pan untill the seeds start to crackle, then grind with a pestle and mortar to a coarse powder, add to the mashed chickpeas.
- Add finely chopped chilli, garlic, onion, turmeric, breadcrumbs, chopped herbs and lime; combine ingreadients well.
- Take a small ammount of the mixture in your hand and from a small ball about the size of a walnut, and repeat untill all the mixture is used.
- Fry the falafel in batches in hot oil (can be deep fried if you prefer) or griddled until crunchy on the outside, about 4 mins.
- Serve with grated salad of carrot, cucumber and radish with yoghurt and mint in toasted pitta bread.
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Reviews & ratings
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Reviews in English (2)
1
Absolutely delicious! Very easy to make, lots of chopping involved though! Need to get a food processor... - 19 Feb 2012
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I wasted all my lovely ingredients on this recipe. It asks for 400g of breadcrumbs!!!!! The felafel just melted in the oil. A waste of ingredients and my time!! - 20 Jun 2017