2010 Cooking Club Week 21: Falafel Burgers

appleb

Hi guys,
Firstly apologies for lack of photos. I have lost my charger for my camera but will upload when/ if I find it. This is a simple receipe but tasty and easy to put together in a hurry.

Ingredients (to serve 2)

• 2 tbsp veg oil
• 2 medium onions, finely chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 6 pack of pitta bread
• 2 X 400 g cans of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• quarter tsp ground tumeric
• 2 tsp coriander seeds, ground
• 1 tsp dried parsley

Serve with Little gem lettuce, hummus and sweet chillie sauce

1. In a large frying pan, heat the oil and fry the onions and garlic for 5-10 mins, until golden and soft
2. Meanwhile chop 2 pitta bread into small pieces in a food processor
3. Add chickpeas into the processor and whizz until broken down
4. add the spices, cooked onions and garlic and parsley- and whizz together again!
5. Use your hands to shape into 8 - 12 patties
6. Fry each patty in a little oil over a medium heat for about 3/4 mins (should be golden brown)
7. Tear the remaining pittas in half, heat in a micro wave and stuff with your burgers
8. Add a little lettuce and a dollop of yougurt or hummus and a drizzle of sweet chillie sauce

Hey, bingo!

Hope you enjoy it;)

Faith

Lovely! I've been meaning to make falafel for a while now .

John Mason

woooo - i love falafel but have never made it

thank you

unkel

I love falafel too, and my recipe is similar enough. But that said, your touch of adding chopped pitta bread into the falafel itself is new to me and pretty intriguing - I can't wait to try your recipe myself

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Would these work on a BBQ?

appleb

I haven't tried them on a bbq- but I can't see why not.

Kimia

Looks gorgeous! I will be trying these. Couple of questions - I have a packet of chickpeas in my cupboard now for about 3 weeks - are they ok to use? Also do you know the nutritional content approx?

Also - i'm fairly new to falafel - would you eat these as a side or instead of meat? I love my meat..

catho_monster

Had this last night for my dinner. GORGEOUS.
Threw the dried spices in with the onion towards the end of its cooking to get them working... Also, I didn't blitz the mix enough and it was on the brink of falling apart on the pan....
Didn't have hummous, had the natural yoghurt with sweet chilli sauce and it was to die for.
Will be having it again tonight!
Thanks a million!

kylith

Thanks for this! Am having a barbeque in a couple of weeks and was racking my brain to figure out what to do for the vegetarians.

Malari

So that's what falafels are I think I'll give them a go this weekend, they sound tasty.

milly4ever

made these today- added some fresh coriander to the mixture also. it was lovely- thanks for the recipe!

appleb

Not on very often but glad you enjoyed them!

emc2

Made these on friday and they were lovely.

Malari

Made half the recipe amount here and it was plenty for two people. Must have some hungry veggies in your house! Not bad, but I don't think they'd be a staple for me. Maybe they'd be less bland with more spices? Or are falafels supposed to be like that?

The Black Oil

Really enjoyed these, very tasty and a good balance between the flavours. Thanks OP. Will be making them again, yum!

John Mason

i am having these on friday

Little Alex

We just had your falafel burgers, appelb. Very happy with the way they turned out. Delish!

I'm not mad about sweet chilli sauce so I went with Greek yogurt with harissa paste (which I encountered in Hill Billy's recipe) instead.

Dinkie

Made these last weekend. They were YUmmmmm! and what was left over was eaten in Croke park the next day and was even nicer.

As per usual, I can't make a recipe without changing the ingredients. I added in some chilli and mustard and some garam masala into the mix as the spices that were recommended were old in my cupboard, and the taste had faded.

I made riata to eat with them, and we ate them in tortilla wraps Will defo be making these again. They would be perfect for lunches in my effort to be healthy!!





Now onto the next recipe....

ibarelycare

Made these last night, they were pretty good, first time trying falafels. I took an earlier poster's advice of adding the spices in to the onion/garlic while they were cooking, I think they would have been quite bland otherwise. The serving size was a bit ridiculous though. This recipe would easily feed 6. We had two generous burgers each last night, I had two again for dinner today and there's still enough mix left for another 3/4 burgers.




Served with sweet chilli sauce, spinach leaves and hasselback potato.