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    Home » Recipes » Deep & Shallow Fried

    Published: Feb 14, 2011 · Modified: Oct 16, 2020 by Usha Rao

    Day 6 - Falafel

    Today's starter is falafel, a famous street food from the middle east. Falafel are chickpeas and/or fava beans fritters which are served in a pita bread, with a salad or served as it is as a snack. I made these for the first time  and Srivalli was my inspiration for this preparation. For the past 3-4 days she has been posting chaat recipes for her Kids Delight - Street Food event and I thought I ought to send something for her event. One of the items on my list for the marathon is moong dal vada or garelu. I thought, why not change the legume and try falafel instead.  This is how I made them.  I don't claim this to be an authentic recipe and used the ingredients that were available in my kitchen.

    Falafel

    Ingredients:

    • 1 cup Dry Garbanzo (I used rice cooker measuring cup)
    • ¾ cup Dry Fava Beans (I substituted it with Lima Beans &  used rice cooker measuring cup)
    • 1 small Onion
    • 6 Green Chilies
    • 3 Cloves Garlic
    • Cilantro
    • ½ tsp. Jeera
    • 1 ½ tsp. Coriander Powder
    • ¼ cup water (rice cooker measuring cup)
    • 1 ¼ tsp. Salt
    • 1 tsp. Chili Powder
    • 2 teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste

    Preparation:

    • Soak dry garbanzo beans and lima beans separately. Soak them overnight or at least 12 hours.
    • Skin the lima beans using your fingers. Press the lima beans between your fingers and the skin will come off.
    • Take onions, green chilies, garlic, cilantro, jeera, coriander powder and salt in food processor container and pulse it into coarse paste.
    • Add garbanzo beans and pulse it for few seconds until it is a coarse paste. Need not add any water to the beans when processing. Transfer it to bowl.
    • My processor bowl is not big enough to process both the beans together so had to do it in two batches. Now take the lima beans and pulse it until smooth adding ¼ cup of water.
    • Mix both the beans, ginger garlic paste and chili powder together and taste it.  Add more spices if needed.Falafel
    • Heat oil in a pan. When hot, make patties on a ziploc bag, dro p them carefully into oil and deep fry them on medium heat until brown. I made them in 5-7 batches.Falafel
    • Another way of making these patties with using your hands is with 2 tablespoons. Take some mixture in a spoon and press it with another spoon to make a nice shape.  These patties will look like madeleines.  Take the spoon that has the batter in your left hand and the second spoon in your right hand and slow drop the pattie into the oil by pulling it down into  the oil with second spoon in your right hand.Falafel
    • Serve these hot as it is or with some salad.

    I am sending these to Kid's Delight: Street Food, Dish Name Starts with F and MLLA # 32 started by The Well Seasoned Cooked.

    Now lets see what the rest of the marathoners have are serving us today.
    Starters: Santosh, Veena

    Street Food: PJ

    British Cuisine: Padma

    Kids Friendly: Azeema, Jay, Pavani, PriyaVaasu, Srivalli,

    Rice Varieties: Kamalika, Sowmya, Harini, Smitha

    Sweets: Champa

    Bookmarked Recipes: Gayathri Kumar, PriyaSuresh, Mina

    Special Ones (one each form the above themes): Bhagi, Gayathri Anand,
    Priya Mahadevan, Minu, Rujuta, Saraswathi, Savitha, Shobana, Suma

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Kathleen Kidman says

      May 27, 2017 at 9:45 pm

      Is it possible to make them using cooked chickpeas and cooked lima beans. I ask as I dont have a food processor. Thanks

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        May 29, 2017 at 7:36 am

        Kathleen, I never tried it with cooked chickpeas or lima beans but I guess you can use it. If using canned chickpeas, drain and pat dry chickpeas with paper towels.

        Reply
    2. Sangeetha says

      September 15, 2011 at 4:15 pm

      Wow ..I have to give it a try .. I love Mediterranean food .. But it is very tough to get those recipes online .. Thanks for sharing 🙂

      Reply
    3. Krithi says

      February 26, 2011 at 4:35 pm

      Thanks for the recipe... Love the falafel..

      http://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com

      Reply
    4. Srivalli says

      February 17, 2011 at 2:45 am

      Usha, I always wanted to make this..recipe sounds great!

      Reply
    5. veena says

      February 17, 2011 at 12:13 am

      I have never dared to make falafel. Will surely try this now

      Reply
    6. rekha says

      February 16, 2011 at 7:43 am

      One more falafel recipe great nice presentation dear.

      Reply
    7. Meena Thennaapan says

      February 16, 2011 at 12:36 am

      Lovely presentation and instructions

      Reply
    8. Smitha says

      February 15, 2011 at 12:31 pm

      i love it anytime...love the way u presented it!
      yumm
      Smitha
      http://smithasspicyflavors.blogspot.com/

      Reply
    9. Sushma Mallya says

      February 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm

      looks yummy,love the pics..

      Reply
    10. Pavani says

      February 15, 2011 at 11:10 am

      Falafel look yumm.. I recently made them too but didn't use fava beans and shallow fried them instead of deep frying. Will post them soon.
      Also the sauce that Champa mentioned does take the dish over the top. This is how I made it: 1/2 cup each of tahini and yogurt, mixed with 1 garlic clove, 1/2tsp ground cumin, some lemon juice & salt and pepper. This sauce is finger licking good. Do give it a try.
      There's another spicy falafel chutney made with red chilies available in Indian grocery. That is yummm too..

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        February 16, 2011 at 2:39 pm

        Will try your sauce next time.

        Reply
    11. Suma Gandlur says

      February 15, 2011 at 10:15 am

      I like the way you have presented falafel in a bed of veggies.

      Reply
    12. PJ says

      February 15, 2011 at 9:03 am

      Love falafel.Looks very delicious...

      Reply
    13. Priya says

      February 15, 2011 at 4:57 am

      My fav anytime..love it that much..

      Reply
    14. Rujuta says

      February 15, 2011 at 4:34 am

      Usha,
      Gr8 recipe and lovely clicks..
      I have not tried the authentic Falafel...so just curious does the authentic version have jeera,ginger garlic paste and coriander powder?
      Now following your blog.....
      Best Wishes...
      Rujuta
      http://theworldaccordingtorujuta.blogspot.com/

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        February 15, 2011 at 7:46 am

        Rujuta, I searched falafel recipes online before preparing it and most of the recipes called for cumin, coriander powder and garlic. Ginger garlic paste is my addition. Also, most of the recipes called for parsley and I substituted it with cilantro, as we always have it on our fridge. Most of the recipes also called for baking powder and bread crumbs which I skipped.

        Reply
    15. saraswathi says

      February 15, 2011 at 2:58 am

      Hi Usha, First same pinch...me to done the same falafel for this 6th day...Love it . If time check my version tooo...

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        February 15, 2011 at 7:48 am

        Saras, is it so? I have not checked it out yet. I will do it later today. I did not go around blog hopping yesterday as I was away from my computer most of the day.

        Reply
    16. sowmya says

      February 15, 2011 at 2:34 am

      hav e to make this now..looks yumm

      Reply
    17. Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi says

      February 14, 2011 at 9:53 pm

      Good one..do they come out in a dark shade?

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        February 14, 2011 at 10:41 pm

        I did not like the pictures I took yesterday. Took this picture today with left over falafel and these three falafel turned out dark. They weren't burnt though.

        Reply
    18. Priya Mahadevan says

      February 14, 2011 at 9:41 pm

      WOw! Another Falafel recipe - Lebanese food has always been a huge fav of mine. Interesting Indian twist to it with the jeera.

      Reply
    19. Champa says

      February 14, 2011 at 9:28 pm

      I had eaten Falafel in pita in some middle eastern restaurant in Houston. Man that was really good. There was some kind of sauce on the top which I don't know anything about and that made everything come together so nicely.

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        February 15, 2011 at 7:49 am

        It must have been tahini, Champa

        Reply

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