What you need for 2-3 persons:
- 200 gram (7 oz) dried chickpeas (if you take them fresh chickpeas out of the can it won't work)
- 1/2 bunch of parsley
- 3 cloves of garlic
- falafel-spice (coriander, cumin, pepper, cinnamon, pimento, cloves, ginger, nutmeg)
- salt
- 1 onion
- 1 salad
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- tahini (sesam mush)
- 3 cups of vegetable oil
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 pita bread
- 3 cup of water
- juice of 1/2 citron
- 30 minutes of your time!
August 12, 2005
- At the day before you soak the chickpeas in water for about 12 hours.
- On the next day we wash the parsley and peel the cloves of garlic.
- We puree the chickpeas together with the parsley and garlic in a mixer or a meat grinder (better!).
- We add 1 cup of water, 3 tablespoons falafel-spice, the baking powder and flavor with salt. Now you should have a well flavoured falafel-dough.
- We form small falafel balls or burgers with wet hands.
- We heat the vegetable oil and add fry the falafel balls for about 7 minutes on middle-heat.
- You take them out of the oil and let them drip off the oil (saves calories).
- We peel the cucumber and cut it into filmy slices. So do we do the tomatoes.
- We peel the onion and cut it into small slices.
- For our sauce we need the tahini, some water, fresh citron sauce and a dash salt: We mix 1 part tahini together with 2-3 parts water and flavour with citron-juice and some salt.
- Now you can serve everything together in a fresh and crusty pita-bread.
ENJOY YOUR MEAL!
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