Yummy food in Tummy: Falafel

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Falafel

Falafel is a deep-fried ball, or a flat made from ground chickpeas. Herbs, spices, and onion relatives are commonly added to the dough. It is a well-known Middle Eastern dish that most likely originated in Egypt.
These are very crispy from outer and soft from inside , which are now found around the world as part of vegetarian cuisine .
Falafel balls can be eaten as falafal sandwich, falafal wrap.

Its very easy to make and delicious.
You can eat with this garlic chutney , hummus or green chutney.

Ingredients

2 cup Chola (Kabuli chana . chickpeas)
Around 1 cup of parsley roughly chopped (You can use cilantro also)
1 garlic roughly chopped
1 medium size onion roughly chopped
salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chili powder (you can use green chili as well )
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup of green cilantro (coriander /dhaniya leaves )

oil for deep frying

Method

Soaked Chola/chickpeas in the water for over night. and drained completely.
In a grinder, add chickpeas, parsley, cilantro , garlic, onion, salt, red chili powder, baking powder and grind it .

Now the mixture is ready , take out mixture into the bowl/plate.

Heat oil in a wok/kadai for deep frying.

When the oil is medium hot add little ball of mixture into oil and see the ball is spreading or not. if the ball is not spreading , your mixture is ready to make balls ,(I am not using any binding agent)
but if its spreading then you can add chick peas flour (besan)/ bread crumbs.

Now prepare all the balls and fry on medium low gas. It will take time.
if you fry on high gas then it will cook from outer and uncooked from inside.