Falafel

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I love this recipe. Click here and see a video of it being made and see where I found this recipe.

Falafel is great to fill into a pita with some yogurt sauce, or hot sauce, cucumbers, tomatoes, fries...

(I found this image from here.)

Serves: 8

Difficulty: medium

Prep & Cook time: 2 hours


2 cups dried garbanzo beans
1 1/2 cup dried fava beans (or more garbanzos if you can't find favas)
1 cup fresh cilantro (must be fresh)
1/2 cup fresh parsley (must be fresh)
8 garlic cloves minced
2 tsp salt
1 tbs coriander
1 tsp cumin
1 very large onion
1/2 tsp blk pepper
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 cup bread crumbs

1/4 cup flour

2 tsp baking soda, added 15 minutes before frying

1/2 tsp baking powder

Soak the garbanzo beans and fava beans in water over night before the day of cooking. Chop and blend the garbanzo beans and fava beans in a food processor until the beans are the consistency of fine bread crumbs. Put in a large bowl. Next put the onion, garlic, cilantro and parsley in the blender and blend until it is a paste consistency, add to bean mixture. To the bowl add the cumin, coriander, salt, black pepper, bread crumbs and cayenne pepper and mix very well. Taste to see if you would like to add more salt or not. Heat about 1 inch of vegetable oil in a 2 to 3 inch frying pan, turn to medium-low heat. Add the baking soda to the bean mixture and mix well. Mold the falafel mixture into small balls or patties and drop into oil to fry, continually turn over the falafel balls to keep the color an even brown on all sides, when they are a medium brown color, remove the balls and drain on a paper towel for a minute.


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