Falafel 2 ways- baked and fried
Middle eastern crispy snack recipe Baked and classic fried versions are shown here. Healthy vegetarian protein rich snack recipe.
Equipment
- Electric oven- baking
Ingredients
- 400 gm Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans
- 1 small onion
- ¼ cup Cilantro leaves
- 4 cloves Garlic
- 1½ tbsp Chickpea flour
- 1 tsp Coriander powder
- ¼ tsp black Peppercorns
- a pinch of ground Cardamom
- 2 tsp Cumin
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Salt
Instructions
- Soak the chickpea/Garbanzo beans for 8 hours or overnight.
- Add soaked beans in a blender.
- Add garlic, cilantro leaves,salt,cumin, coriander powder,cardamom powder, chickepea flour.
- Grind it into a coarse texture.
- Mix the ground ingredients well.
- Use fingers to make them into balls.
- Use palm and fingers to flatten the balls and shape them into patties.
Baked Falafel
- Preheat the oven into 170 C for 10 minutes.
- Place them in a greased tray or a baking paper lined tray.
- Bake the falafel for 20 minutes by flipping and turning them every 3 to 4 minutes.
- If the falafel is not golden colour on the sides, bake them for 5 more minutes.
Fried falafel
- Add oil in a hot pan. Bring the oil into high tempreature.
- Low the heat into medium.
- Add shaped falafel into the oil and fry.
- Turn and flip the falafel while frying to cook them evenly.
- Take out and strain the oil from falafel and place them in a paper towel to absorb the excess oil.
- Serve the falafel with Hummus or simple mayo.
Notes
Check out High protein breakfast wraps recipe for mayo dressing preparation.
Use dried garbanzo/chickpea and soak them for overnight or at least 8 hours. Don't substitute canned garbanzo. The result won't be good as we need the coarse mixture.