Nombelina

When I came across these recipes on Kayotic Kitchen‘s website, I just knew I had to try them. Normally I used to buy falafel at the grocery store and I wanted to try making it myself. Kay’s hummus and yogurt also seemed like the perfect companions for the falafel and they were.

You could make your own pita bread, but as these recipes were labour intensive enough, I just bought some.

For convenience I’ll list all the ingredients, for the recipes I advise you to take a look at Kay’s recipe with step by step photo’s. Or if you’re Dutch, you can read my the Dutch version of the recipe.

Falafel:

2 cups chickpeas (rinsed en soaked overnight)

1 medium onion

2 large garlic cloves

Bunch of flat leaf parsley

1½ tbsp all-purpose flour

½ tsp baking powder

1½ tsp salt

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

¼ tsp cardamom

¼ tsp ground black pepper

¼ tsp cayenne

Extra’s:

Oil for deep frying

Pita bread

Vegetables like lettuce, sliced onion, cucumber, tomatoes, pickles

The falafel is made by grinding the chickpeas using a meat grinder. First using 8 mm plates and a second time using 4½ mm plates.

After everything is combined you fry the little falafel patties until crispy and golden. Next time I’m going to add a bit of a chili kick to the falafel mixture.

Simpel hummus:

14oz/400 gr can of chickpeas, rinsed

½ cup tahini

3 tbsp lemon juice

6 tbsp ice-cold water

1 garlic clove

½ tsp ground cumin

¼ tsp cayenne

½ tsp salt

Extra virgin olive oil

Sweet paprika powder

A straight forward recipe. You could spice things up and also add extra ingredients like grilled red peppers or cooked broccoli.

Yogurt dip:

1 cup thick yogurt

1 garlic clove

1 tbsp lemon juice

Salt & pepper

Extra virgin olive oil

Chopped flat-leaf parsley

Black pepper

An awesome fresh and garlicky dip that works perfectly with just about anything.

We ate the falafel with the hummus and dip inside pita bread along with some sliced red onion, cucumber and sliced pickles. It would work just as well inside a wrap, as a burger or a meat free addition to a salad.

If you have an electric meat grinder it will speed up the process, but it worked just as well with our manual meat grinder.

I loved these recipes, on there own they would also work perfectly at a picnic or barbecue. Thanks Kay!

Tags: falafel, recipe, tested, vegetarian