Falafel Recipe

reWell, here is my falafel recipe. Or the one I adapted anyway...

Ingredients
500g dried chickpeas

2 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

(I added a bit of self raising flour as I didn't have bicarb)

1 large onion

5 spring onions (I just used 2 red onions)

6 cloves garlic

1 large handful flat-leaf parsley

1 large bunch coriander (I used mint instead cos I didn't have any)

salt and pepper to season

vegetable oil to fry


Method:
Soak the chickpeas for a full 24 hours in warm water.

The following day drain and dry the chickpeas then whizz the lot

in the blender until you have a paste. Tar off balls of the mixture and

form falafels from this that should be about 5cm in diameter and

1 cm deep. My mixture was quite wet, so that is why I added the

flour. Just enough to help it be workable. Allow the falafels

you've just made to rest for 15 minutes then heat vegetable oil

(I used extra virgin olive oil and shallow fried them) in a frying pan

and fry the falafels in hot oil until they become

crisp and brown on both sides.

Then the best part....eat them!