Falafelaplooza

Hello everyone! The government is back up and so am I! For it’s Green Week! And no I don’t mean eco-friendly or Irish Heritage Week, I mean this weeks recipe was made for vegetarians in mind! For the recipe is

FALAFEL!

And what’s more patriotic than a good ol’ falafel on the stove?

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Here are all the ingredients you need to make a run of the mill falafel:

Pita bread

Chickpeas

Cilantro

Cumin

Garlic

Onion

Cucumber

Flour

And any other ingredient you would want to add to your falafel.

Step 1: Boil a pot of water. Drain the chickpea juice from the can out and pour the chickpeas into a pot once the water starts to boil. Keep the chickpeas in the boiling water for roughly five minutes then turn the heat down to a low simmer.

Leave this here for roughly 45 minutes – an hour with the top on. 

Step 2: Dice up your garlic, onion, cilantro and anything else you desire to put into your meal.

Garlic

Onion

Cilantro

Step 3: Once the chickpeas are done with their sauna, you need to mash them. You could use a blender, like so.

Once in the blender, toss in all of your diced ingredients for a party of fresh flavors.

But this party, like most middle school parties is awkward and not that exciting so we need something to spice it up. To remedy that go ahead and drop in a teaspoon of cumin and 2 tablespoons of flour. 

Cause flour is the party animal of this recipe as it brings everything together!

This flour is ratchet.

 For as everyone knows if flour was in middle school it’d be your crush that you desperately want to impress but you’re so sweaty and nervous that they pass you up for your best friend.

Screw you Cindy.

Step 4: Blend/mash all of your ingredients together!

Since the blender wasn’t particularly working on this night so we’d have to resort to mashing instead. You want to mash all of the ingredients together until it forms sort of a paste like substance.

Step 5: Once done mashing, form balls of the material. The ideal ball should be firm and compacted together so it won’t fall apart when frying it.

Step 6: Get another pot and fill it roughly with two inches of olive oil. Turn the heat up high so that it will boil.

Once you have all of your balls in a row start popping them into the pot so you can deep fry those suckers.

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pay your taxes. 

Do this until the balls start to get crispy and brown on the outside.

Step 7: Cut your pita bread in half and make a little pocket out of one of the sides.
Stuff the balls into the pocket along with anything else your heart desires.

And there you have yourself a lil’ falafel!

That's nice. 

I've never really experimented much with multiple ingredients before so it was a nice experience to observe how the fala works with the fel. 

Guest Eater of the Week: Lazarus – aka vegetarian #2 aka guy who provided this weeks killer recipe

“I can get behind this.”

“Solid.”

Until next time kitchen hustlers! And be on the look out for a Halloween themed post next week!

She gets me.