Falafel Sandwich – Manjula’s Kitchen

Falafel is a well-liked Center Japanese chick pea patty. Falafel is stuffed in pita bread with salad and sauce.

Preparation Time: quarter-hour
Cooking Time: half-hour
Serves: 4.

Components:

Falafel

• 1 cup dried chick peas (garbanzo, kabli chana)
• 2 tablespoon chopped parsley
• 2 tablespoon chopped cilantro
• 1 inexperienced chili
• About 1/4 inch piece of ginger
• 1 1/2 teaspoon salt regulate to style
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon purple chili flakes
• 1/4 cup all function flour (plain flour, maida)
• Additionally want oil to fry

Tahini Sauce

• 1/4 cup sesame seeds
• 1 1/4 teaspoon salt regulate to style
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
• About 2 tablespoon chopped parsley
• About 2 tablespoon chopped cilantro
• 1 inexperienced chili regulate to style
• About 1/4 cup water use as wanted

Additionally Want

• 2 cups of thinly sliced lettuce
• 2 medium measurement chopped tomatoes
• 1/2 cup chopped cucumber
• 4 pocket pita bread

Technique

Tahini Sauce

1. In a small frying pan dry roast the sesame seeds on medium warmth for 2-3 minutes.
2. combine all of the components and mix to make a pourable paste use water as wanted
3. Hold it apart.

Falafel

1. Soak the chickpeas in 4 cups of water over night time. After soaking chickpeas shall be about 2 and half time in quantity.
2. In stress cooker add chickpeas with the three cups of water. Shut the cooker and put the stress on.
3. Cook dinner on medium excessive warmth.
4. As stress cooker begins steaming flip the warmth right down to medium and prepare dinner for about 4 minutes.
5. Shut the warmth and wait till steam has stopped earlier than opening the stress cooker. Chickpeas must be simply tender not very gentle.
6. Drain the water and let it cool; mix all of the components for falafel grind utilizing meals processor, combination must be grainy. If wanted add few spoons of water.
7. Divide the combination in 24 equal components or make them as desired measurement patties.
8. Warmth oil in a frying pan on medium excessive warmth.
9. The frying pan ought to have at the least 1 ½ inch of oil. To test if the oil is prepared, put small piece of dough in oil. The dough ought to come up however not change shade immediately.
10. Slowly drop the falafel patties within the oil and fry till they’re brown in shade either side. It ought to take about 5-6 minutes to prepare dinner every batch.
11. Hold the patties apart.

Serving suggestion

1. Take pita bread and warmth over the skillet on medium excessive warmth either side flippantly.
2. Slice the pita bread from middle in half take one half and open from middle trying like a pocket.
3. Fill the pita pocket with chopped lettuce so it 1/3 full. Subsequent add some chopped tomatoes and cucumber.
4. Pour about one tablespoon of tahini sauce, 3 to 4 items of falafel and once more tahini sauce.
5. It’s finest to serve the sandwich with sizzling falafels. Falafels will be simply re-heated earlier than serving utilizing an oven or toaster oven.

Variation

Serve the falafel over inexperienced salad use the tahini sauce as a dressing.

Initially posted 2010-05-19 22:35:11.

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