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.
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.
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| Garlic |
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| Onion |
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| 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.
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!
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| 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.
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.
Do this until the balls start to get crispy and brown on the outside.
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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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.
Stuff the balls into the pocket along with anything else your heart desires.
And there you have yourself a lil’ falafel!
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| 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!
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| She gets me. |
