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Lebanese Falafel Recipe / How to Make Chickpea Falafel Recipe

June 5, 2015 By Aarthi 5 Comments

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Falafel, a world famous lebanese snack, it is popular throughout middle eastern and now it has been popular all over the world. These pretty crispy balls makes the best falafel sandwich ever. Will share a recipe soon..I have already shared a falafel recipe in this blog, but this recipe is a little different from it and it is a authentic recipe.

Similar Recipe,
Falfel with Lemon Tahini Sauce
Tahini Paste
Tahini Dip
Baharat Spice Mix

They are so flavourful, crunchy outside and moist in the middle. I loved it so much. I enjoyed it with my tahini dip..

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time :15 mins
Soaking Time : Overnight
Cooking Time : 2 to 3 mins
Makes : 12 to 15 falafels

Ingredients:

Chickpeas / Chana – 1 cup
Onion – 1 medium size chopped finely
Garlic – 2 tblspn chopped finely
Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup chopped finely
Mint Leaves – 1/4 cup chopped finely
Cumin Powder / jeera Podi – 2 tsp
Baharat Spice Mix – 1 tblspn (Recipe here)
Salt to taste

Method:

Wash and soak chickpeas overnight. Next day, drain them and add it to blender, crush them to a little coarse mix. Take them in a bowl .

Add in all the ingredients except oil and mix really well.

Take small portion and shape them into ball.

Fry them in oil till golden, drain them,.

Serve with tahini dip.

Pictorial:
Take all your ingredients
Take soaked, drained chana in a blender
crush them to a coarse paste
look how coarse it is
remove them to a bowl
add in onions
garlic
chopped coriander and mint leaves
some salt
some cumin powder
now the main spice, baharat (recipe here)
mix really well
take a small portion
shape it into ball
do this for all the mix
now deep fry it in oil
fry till golden
drain on some paper towel
Enjoy
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Filed Under: Arab Recipes, Fried, Recent Recipes, Tarla Dalal

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Anonymous

    June 8, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    Hey Aarthy,
    This recipe was really awesome.It tasted almost like Mutton Kola balls…. also this did not absorb oil so much like normal vada. Thank you so much for all your recipes. It will be helpful if you can share some recipes with broccoli gravy for chappati.

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  2. Anonymous

    July 14, 2015 at 7:05 am

    Can we use black channa??

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  3. Aarthi

    July 14, 2015 at 10:16 am

    @Anonymousnormally white is used, black will affect the texture and colour

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  4. Namrata Khandeparkar

    November 8, 2016 at 4:58 am

    Hello Aarthi ! A big fan of yours .. i hv tried all ur sandwich recipes for breakfast and all r awsm 🙂
    Can I try to bake this falfal ? mayb my flattening them a bit ??

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    • Aarthi

      November 9, 2016 at 4:58 pm

      yes u can. bake in a 180 degree oven for 20 mins

      Reply

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