I love stuffing these into a pita sandwich loaded with chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, fresh herbs, hummus , pickled onions , and generous drizzles of tahini sauce. To customize your pita sandwich, you could easily swap another Middle Eastern sauce like tzatziki or baba ganoush for the hummus, or drizzle it with cilantro lime dressing instead of or in addition to the tahini.
Try my Mediterranean chickpea salad , shawarma wraps , or stuffed zucchini next! Check out this post for more healthy dinner ideas , or this post for 85 more vegan recipes! Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail. This is an amazing recipe! The lemon zest compliments the other flavors.
The texture is meat-like and the patties held together well. One of my favourite vegan foods, falafel made with various herbs and spices, is a wonderful breakfast meal when paired with sauce and lettuce.
Hi Lucy — Happy to hear you found a winning falafel recipe! Sounds great wrapped with lettuce and drizzled with a sauce :. I have been making falafels for decades, but this one is by far a cut above the rest. Well done folks, thanks for sharing. I was wondering what temperature to bake these in the oven. When I attempted to fry them they just dissolved. Hi Laurie — You can find oven instructions written in the post.
But you will need to bake them at F for minutes. Easy and so delicious! I made this recipe and it turned out great! Thanks for sharing! Thaw the mixture in the fridge, stir it, then form in balls or patties and cook. Can you clarify? Thanks for catching that Shari! Hi, I really want to try making these on Thursday evening to take away for the weekend. Do you think they will last 24hours? In the fridge! I can reheat when it comes to eating? Thank you!!
These really are delicious. I made them for a crowd 35 and baked in a convection oven. They were crispy and delicious. I also made them for a smaller group and pan fried them. Both methods were crispy and delicious. Served on a bed of lettuce with tahini sauce, tabouli, hummus and a carrot salad, flatbread on side. I am making them again next week for 30 and wondering about making the batter and freezing it, then thawing it and cooking it day of.
Do you think this will change the end result much? Recommend or not? Made these twice already this week! I used canned chickpeas and the batter is a little more wet. I rolled them in flour before dropping them in the oil and they kept their shape nicely.
They came out delicious! Next time I want to make enough to freeze. Thank you for this delish recipe! My boyfriend and I have made these several times. Still unbelievable!! We also bake instead of fry. One of our favorite recipes to make during the week!
Thank you for this! Mine didnt turn green. I added the parsley and cilantro after measuring 1 cup each prior to chopping. Should i have chopped then measurrd? They are fail proof and delicious! I make up the balls and freeze them on a cookie sheet then put into a container in the freezer, thank you for sharing!
Love them with tahini sauce and in a Buddha bowl. Made it tonight. Came out better than restaurants! Just finished cooking them!! OMG they are wonderful. Had to add chick pea flour. Added all ingredients except hot peppers. Thanks so much for this recipe!!! Just reading through the recipe and it looks like you are using raw uncooked chick peas….
Not sure if it will work as well? Oh, YUM!!! These are ah-mazing! I followed the recipe exactly but did need to add several more Tbsp of the garbanzo flour. I air-fried at for about 12 minutes, spraying lightly with olive oil. So thankful there are leftovers!!! Glad your falafels turned out perfectly in your air fryer Cindy!
Love the way you served it up as well for the ultimate Mediterranean meal :. Hello and welcome to Downshiftology! Please read my disclosure policy.
Jump to Recipe Jump to Video. I could imagine this would turn out pretty well. Particularly with the oven frying method -- brushing some oil on the outside of the falafel would do well to prevent evaporation.
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Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Version labels for answers. Linked Related Hot Network Questions. When we started our recipe testing, we both really wanted previously cooked or canned chickpeas to work in this recipe. Unfortunately, after a few tests, we determined that canned chickpeas do not work as a direct substitute for soaked dried beans.
When I substituted canned chickpeas in this recipe, the falafel literally vanished in the oil, it just disintegrated. To get around this, I needed to add flour, which did help the falafel stay together in the oil, and I achieved a nice brown exterior, but the middle was mushy and all one texture.
Not anything like the falafel in our photos with bits of chickpea, onion, and herbs. If you need to make falafel with canned chickpeas, you will need to make the following adjustments to our recipe and remember the texture will be very different. For falafel made with canned chickpeas, substitute three cups of canned chickpeas patted dry for the soaked chickpeas and add 4 to 5 tablespoons of all-purpose flour to the mix.
Falafel is best when fried, but you can successfully bake the falafel mix for slightly healthier, baked falafel. To bake falafel, heat the oven to degrees Fahrenheit and add a couple tablespoons of high heat cooking oil to a baking sheet.
Bake the falafel patties, flipping once, until golden brown on both sides, 20 to 25 minutes. Scroll down to see a photo showing the different between fried and baked falafel. You already know that we prefer to fry our falafel, but you can pan fry falafel instead which uses much less oil. To pan fry falafel, heat a couple tablespoons of high heat cooking oil in a wide skillet over medium heat.
Pan fry the falafel patties, flipping once, until golden brown on both sides, 4 to 5 minutes. Scroll down to see a photo showing the different between fried and pan fried falafel. We wanted to make sure that we covered all the bases for this recipe, so we tried all three cooking methods and took a photo for you. In the photo below, fried falafel are on the left, pan-fried falafel is in the middle, and baked falafel is on the right. The most tender, fluffy result was fried left.
The interior texture of the pan fried falafel was close to fried, but the outside was not nearly as crunchy. Compared to the other options, the baked falafel was much drier and more dense in the middle and the exterior was the least crunchy.
One note, while we have not tried it, we are both interested in what would happen if we used an air fryer to cook falafel. Yes, this falafel mixture can be made in advance. The falafel mix should keep covered in the fridge for a few days. In fact, we rely on this a lot since it is just the two of us. You can also freeze pre-made falafel balls up to six months. Thaw the balls in the refrigerator and then cook them in oil as directed in the recipe below.
Cooked falafel can also be frozen, thawed, and then reheated. Falafel is best when eaten straight away. Technically, cooked falafel will last, covered in the fridge for a day or two.
You can even try freezing it. The falafel will still taste great, you will just lose quite a bit of the texture. As an appetizer with your favorite dipping sauce. We cannot recommend our dreamy vegan tahini sauce enough for dipping your falafel into. This creamy tzatziki a cucumber yogurt dip would also be amazing. Add falafel to or alongside salads. I love lots of crunch in my salads and especially love shredded purple cabbage, cucumbers, and tomato as a base for falafel.
This chopped tomato, cucumber, and onion salad is also a favorite I just spoon it on top of everything. Make a falafel sandwich. You can add just about anything, but our favorite falafel sandwiches start with pita bread, a spoonful of hummus , lettuce or cabbage, tomato, cucumber, and a drizzle of tahini or garlic tahini sauce. Make a falafel platter. After lots of kitchen tests, this falafel recipe has become our favorite way to make falafel.
In addition to the active prep and cook time, you will need to soak dried chickpeas overnight. This can be done a couple days in advance, simply drain and pat dry the soaked beans, and then store, covered in the fridge until ready to make the falafel mix.
Note on using canned chickpeas or cooked chickpeas: Canned chickpeas are cooked chickpeas.
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