Recipe: Appetizing Lebanese Falafel

Lebanese Falafel.

You can Have Lebanese Falafel using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lebanese Falafel

1. Lets Go Prepare of Chickpeas Dry (soaked for 24 hours).
2. Lets Go Prepare of Parsley (chopped fine).
3. Lets Go Prepare of Cilantro.
4. What You needis of Onions (medium) roughly chopped.
5. What You needis of Garlic chopped.
6. Lets Go Prepare of Green chillies roughly chopped.
7. It's of Coriander Powder.
8. Lets Go Prepare of Cumin Powder.
9. Lets Go Prepare of Baking Soda.
10. It's of Salt.
11. It's of Oil for frying.

Lebanese Falafel step by step

1. Soak the chickpeas overnight or upto 24 hours in the refrigerator for better results. Drain as much water as you can. Too much moisture will prevent the mix from holding shape when made balls.
2. Make the mix: Use the large jar of the blender to pulse together the soaked chickpeas, onions, garlic, green chillies. After 3-4 pulses, coriander and parsley leaves, baking soda, coriander and cumin powder. Note: the mix can be made in batches as well to avoid over crowding the blender jar..
3. Pulse a few more times. You do not want a fine paste. Just an uneven crumbly mixture that can be made into balls when a handful of mix is lightly pressed together. I say uneven because the bigger bits of chickpeas adds an extra crunch..
4. Add salt to taste and rest this mix for an atleast hour or even overnight.
5. Make small lemon-sized balls of the mix. At this stage, these can be deep frozen and fried as per requirement. Or, deep fried immediately. Let one side brown before turning. I had to be really delicate with frying these falafels as they could break if I turn them over too quickly..
6. Fried Falafels can be made into a pita bread sandwich or salad with some tahini sauce, tomatoes, cucumber, etc. Enjoy!.