Lebanese Falafel Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is a popular street food made with chickpeas, herbs, onion & spices. It's texture is crispy exterior and soft bright interior.
Lebanese Falafel
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 an authentic recipe.
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Ingredients for Lebanese Falafel
- Chickpeas / Chana - 1 cup
- Onion - 1 medium size chopped finely
- Garlic - 2 tbsp chopped finely
- Coriander leaves - ¼ cup chopped finely
- Mint Leaves - ¼ cup chopped finely
- Cumin Powder / jeera Podi - 2 tsp
- Baharat Spice Mix - 1 tblspn (Recipe here)
- Salt to taste
How to Make Lebanese Falafel
- 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.
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Chickpeas soaked
- 1 medium Onion chopped finely
- 2 tbsp Garlic chopped finely
- ¼ cup Coriander leaves chopped finely
- ¼ cup Mint Leaves chopped finely
- 2 tsp Cumin Powder / jeera Podi
- 1 tbsp Baharat Spice Mix
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- 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.
Video
Lebanese Falafel Recipe Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Take soaked, drained chana in a blender |
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
Can we use black channa??
Aarthi
@Anonymousnormally white is used, black will affect the texture and colour
Namrata Khandeparkar
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 ??
Aarthi
yes u can. bake in a 180 degree oven for 20 mins