justfap.xxx

Falafel | The Best Felafel Recipe

Falafels are small round chickpea cookies that are fried deep in oil, then served as snacks or even main dishes. There are other snacks too, like potato patties and kuku sabzi. You can find wide range of variety in recipes and ways that felafels are prepared south of Iran.

This Persian dish has an easy instruction and you would love to learn it for the days you are tired and you just need something quick as a meal. The very positive point about falafel is that you can make the content ready and keep it in the freezer. Whenever you want to fry the balls, just discard the content, make the ball shapes and fry them. Yummy felafels are ready!

topping and serving felafel

Falafel | Felafel

PersianGood Team
Felafel is one of the most delicious dishes from the south of Iran, but the popularity of this food has spread through all cities of Iran, however, the original recipe seems to have been taken from Egypt.
In spite of using a lot of oil for frying it, it's a very healthy meal. Chickpeas are the main ingredients of this food which are really nutritious, as a source of fiber.
Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 45 mins
Total Time 1 hr 15 mins
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine persian
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 200 grams chickpeas
  • 100 grams parsley
  • 1 teaspoon seeds of dried coriander, caraway, turmeric, salt and pepper.

Instructions
 

  • Put some water in a suitable bowl then put the chickpeas in the water. Let them lay in the water and Change the water for a few times (do this a day before cooking).
  • Peel off the onion and cut it into either 4 or 8 pieces.
  • Use an electric blender to blend all the ingredients and let the combination rest in the fridge for about 2 hours.
  • Use your hands to pick up a small amount of the combination and give it a rounded shape (like walnuts or golf balls)
  • Pre heat the oil and when it's hot, fry the balls in the bowl.

Topping and Serving Falafel

falafel is an iranian dish
  • This food is originally served with Pita (a type of flat bread). You can serve it with baguette or any other kinds of bread. Like cutlet and shami, it can be serves as “Loghmeh”s or sandwiches.
  • This dish is served with some Lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, Torshi. Different types of sauces such as mayo, ketchup and french dressing are used as, as well.
  • There’s this type of sauce made with the powder of dried skin of mangoes. which can be served with felafel, giving it a taste you have never experienced before.
  • In Iranian restaurants some fried slices of eggplant are also served with Felafel, next to french fries.
  • Having a cup of mint tea after this falafel is recommended.
  • Cut the parsley in to smaller pieces. It is used for both topping it and serving (in the sandwiches or loghmehs)the dish. For inside the sandwich, small diced onions can be used as well.

Tips for Cooking Falafel

felafel recipe
  • The chickpeas used in Falafel must be raw, otherwise the result won’t be satisfying.
  • Besides using the spices mentioned before ,you can add some nutmeg, paprika and mango powder to the mixture.
  • Onions make Felafel softer and moister, so you can add one more onions to the mixture if you prefer a softer outcome.
  • Before frying the balls make sure that the oil is heated up, otherwise the food might get stuck on it.
  • Some people add an egg to the mixture of the ingredient, but it is not necessary.

Falafel, a dish suitable for vegetarians, can be easily cooked and served. Not many ingredients are needed and cooking it won’t take much time.

Tell us about your experiences, if you have ever cooked or served this dish, how did you find it?

12 Comments
  1. jila says

    I used mango sauce instead of mango powder and the result was awesome.

    1. PersianGood Team says

      Thanks for your comment. It does make it taste delicious.

  2. oiplo says

    5 stars
    these cute little round felafels are the best persian dish I have ever tasted

  3. janiya says

    5 stars
    thanks for this easy recipe you taught me. I like it too much

  4. sewr says

    5 stars
    thanks for the recipe. these round felafels are very easy to carry when I go to work or so

  5. warren says

    5 stars
    very very delicious
    thanks for the awesome recipe. it was easy and cheap

  6. tro says

    5 stars
    the best part of this recipe was the chickpeas. I usually don;t know what to do with such legumes and now I know! thanks to persiangood recipes

  7. erte says

    5 stars
    it was good. I liked it. it was cheap to prepare and easy to follow the instructions

  8. siaq says

    5 stars
    it is like kale gonjeshki on this site. the round shape. but it was fried. and no meat! liked it

  9. kai says

    5 stars
    felafel is one of the most common sandwich in Iran special in south province like booshehr and khuzestan

  10. pol says

    5 stars
    felafel is a very delicious and filling snack. thanks to you

  11. nilk says

    5 stars
    oh it was awesome! thanks

Leave A Reply

Your email address will not be published.

Recipe Rating




This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Accept Read More