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Falafel Vegetarian
Would you like to make your own falafel? These homemade falafel are full of flavour, vegetarian, and ready in 45 minutes. Delicate, spicy and served with a fresh yoghurt sauce.
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6 persons
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Made by Véronique
Published at 2015-04-07, this recipe is for 6 persons and takes 45 minutes.
Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.
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Preparation time
15 minutes
Time cooking
30 minutes
Total time
45 minutes
Preparing the falafel – 15 minutes + waiting time
Soak the dried chickpeas in plenty of cold water. There are recipes which use canned chickpeas, but these tend to be very wet and harder to form into nice balls which don't fall apart during frying.
Drain the soaked chickpeas and leave them in the colander. This will help even more water to drain out of the chickpeas. Peel the garlic cloves and red onion, then cut them into chunks.
Remove the seeds from the red chilli and strip the coriander leaves from their stems. Put the chickpeas, garlic, onion, red chilli and coriander in the food processor and pulse until almost smooth (the mixture will never be completely smooth).
Put the mixture in a large bowl and add the spices, bicarbonate of soda, lemon zest and flour.
Frying the falafel – 30 minutes
Heat the sunflower oil to a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius. Use your hands to roll small balls from the falafel dough. This will be a bit sticky; you can add some extra flour if necessary, but this will make the falafel drier.
Deep fry for 3 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve the falafel with a simple yoghurt sauce: just mix some sliced fresh garlic and lemon juice together with plain yoghurt and season with salt and pepper. Enjoy your meal!
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4 comments on "Falafel"
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A_boleyn
says on 2015-04-08
I don't know why I never thought to use chickpea flour in my falafel. It's a great dish.
Ohmydish
says on 2015-04-08
What do you usually use as flour in your falafel ? :)
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