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falafel recipe

Falafel

Nutritious and crispy street food as well as staple food in middle eastern region. You can have this as snack with sauce. This can be wrapped in breads / pitas with some sauce(garlic or sesame) and potato fries. You can wrap it along with some veg salads and/or meat of your choice to make it a good tiffin or meal.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Soaking time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 25 minutes
Course Street food
Cuisine Mediterranean, middle-eastern
Servings 20

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Chick peas / white channa dal
  • Oil for frying

To Grind

  • 1 Onion
  • 2 Green chilli adjust as per your spice need
  • 5 Garlic cloves
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • 1/2 tsp whole Pepper adjust as per your spice need
  • 1/2 cup Chopped coriander leaves
  • 1/2 cup Parsley
  • 1 tsp Salt as required

To Mix

  • 1/4 tsp Baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp Asefoetida / hing (optional, I prefer to add it)
  • 2 tbsp Chick-pea / Channa dal powder
  • 1 Lemon juice optional, I did not use it

Instructions
 

Soak and grind Chickpea

  • Wash and soak the chick-peas for 8 hours. After 8 hours, drain the water completely.

Prepare the dough

  • Add all the ingredients mentioned under "To Grind" in a food processor or mixer grinder along with chick-peas.
    Grind all together coarsely.
  • Add baking soda, hing, channa dal and lemon juice with the ground channa dal and mix together.
  • Now the dough is ready.

To deep fry:

  • Make small lemon sized ball and deep fry in medium hot oil, flipping in between once or twice. Take out after it turns to golden brown.

To Shallow fry

  • Make small lemon size ball and flatten it to round shaped patty.
    In a pan, shallow fry one side in medium hot oil. Then flip to other side and fry.
    Take out after it turns to golden brown.

To Bake

  • Preheat the oven for 180 degree Celsius. Make small lemon size ball and flatten it to round shaped patty as we do for shallow fry.
  • Grease the tray with vegetable oil and then transfer the patties to tray. Spray some oil on it and bake it for 20 to 30 minutes flipping through in between. Take out once it turns to golden brown color.

Notes

If you are using food processor to grind, depends on its size, you can grind it all together or split them and grind.
If you are using mixer grinder, split the chick-peas in batches and grind.
Freshly and Coarsely ground chick-peas will give you crispy falafel.
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