Kitchen appliances and utensils: a set of dishes of different depths, stewpan, paper towels, meat grinder, cutting board, knife, mortar and pestle, teaspoon
Ingredients
| Chickpeas | 1 kg |
| Onion | 2 pcs. |
| Cilantro | 2 large beams |
| Black pepper peas | 1 tsp |
| Zira | 1 tsp |
| Coriander | 1 tsp |
| Dried garlic | 1 tsp |
| Salt | 1 tsp |
Step cooking
Prepare the ingredients
- Rinse thoroughly 1 kg of chickpea and fill it with clean water. We give it to swell for 10-12 hours, so that thanks to gluten it is better molded and kept in shape.
- Peel 2 medium onions from husks and roots. Sweet red onions are great, but regular ones will do. Cut it into quarters or eighths.
- We wash 2 large bunches of cilantro. They should be almost 100 g in weight. We cut them large enough. If you really do not like cilantro, then replace it with dill or parsley, but the dish will suffer from this.
Cooking Falafel
- Take 1 tsp. black pepper peas, zira, coriander, dried garlic and salt. Grind them together using a mortar and pestle. If they are not, we take all these spices in a ground form.
- We pass the products through a meat grinder in the following sequence: chickpeas, onions, cilantro. Then add all the spices and knead the homogeneous forcemeat. Leave it to soak for 30-40 minutes.
- After that, we make small round or oval cutlets from minced meat. We put them in a convenient place next to the stove.
- Pour about ½ liter of vegetable oil into the stewpan. We heat it to a very high temperature.
- One by one, immerse the cutlets in boiling oil and fry until a brownish-golden crust appears. It is important not to overexpose the falafels so that they do not burn out.
- We put the finished products on paper towels to drain excess fat. Serve hot or cold falafel with tomato and white sauces, vegetables and pita.
Video recipe
To better understand what falafel is and how to cook it correctly, watch the video recipe. Its author will focus on common mistakes that can be made when creating a dish.
So you learned how to cook this beautiful oriental dish with an unusual name. Falafel is gaining popularity from year to year: it is prepared as a substitute for meat cutlets, added to vegan shawarma. The benefits of chickpeas as a product are also difficult to overestimate. And the fact that you have mastered this recipe is very good.
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