Falafel
This falafel is better than my favorite Middle Eastern restaurant makes! Check out The Golden Balance for more delicious Middle Eastern food! You will definitely find more of his recipes in my blog's recipe book. Please check Step 1 before making this recipe!
Ingredients:
☆ 1 ½ cups dried chickpeas☆ 6 ½ white onions
☆ 3 cloves garlic
☆ ½ cup parsley (dried is fine!)
☆ ½ cup cilantro (same!)
☆ 1 tsp baking powder
☆ 1 tsp kosher salt
☆ ½ tsp coriander
☆ 1 tsp cumin
☆ ¼ tsp turmeric
☆ 1 tbsp cornstarch
☆ 2-3 cups cooking oil (non-flavored, like Canola or vegetable oil!) for frying
Directions:
☆ Step 1: Soak your dried chickpeas in a big bowl of water the night before you make this recipe. It's fine to leave the bowl on the counter! If you have curious cats or something, cover it with saran wrap or aluminum foil.☆ Step 2: Drain your soaked chickpeas and rinse them with a colander! And then lay them out on a tray lined with paper towel to dry them off as much as possible.
☆ Step 3: Chop your onions, your chopped pieces don't have to be super small or consistent in size. You're gonna add this to a food processor (or blender, like we have) later anyway.
☆ Step 4: Speaking of the food processor! Add the chickpeas, white onion, garlic, parsley and cilantro into your food processor and blend them until roughly blended. Then add your baking powder, salt, coriander, cumin, turmeric and cornstarch then continue to blend, until everything is finely blended!
☆ Step 4.5: Okay so we don't have a fucking food processor so we have to do this in a literal blender like idiots. We have to like, blend each ingredient individually because it's all too much for our blender. And then we blend them together. So like, do that if you don't have a food processor I guess. Try to approximate the actual recipe as much as you can, but sometimes it's hard out here for a guy who doesn't have a food processor.
☆ Step 5: Get out a deep pan of some kind and add your oil, heat it before you start scooping balls of falafel into it! You can use an ice cream scoop of some kind to get really consistent balls. Fry your balls of falafel until they're deep golden brown.
☆ Step 6: Remove your falafel balls from the oil and let them sit for a second on a paper towel, add salt to taste.
☆ Step 7: Enjoy!!! ^ q ^
Very high-effort, requires lots of helping hands. But delicious once you're done!