Recipe- Healthy For Breakfast Falafel

This is a middle eastern food generally served with pita bread and Tahini sauce. Falafel wrap is perfect for a healthy breakfast. You can add falafel balls with lots of salad, yogurt dip, and Tahini sauce. It is a very filling meal.

Ingredients

For Falafel:

1 cup Chickpeas soaked overnight
1 onion finely chopped
2 garlic cloves chopped
¼ tsp red chili powder
2 green chilies deseeded and chopped
2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander leaves
Salt to taste
¼ tsp black pepper
water

Note: I have not used baking powder/soda in the recipe though it is sometimes used. It is your preference.

Oil for deep frying

For Tahini sauce:

3 tbsp sesame seeds
2 tbsp olive oil
1 garlic clove grated finely
juice of 1 lemon
water

For yogurt dip:

½ cup thick curd
¼ cucumber grated
1 tsp chopped fresh coriander leaves
salt and pepper to taste

Method

- First, you have to prepare tahini sauce and yogurt dip.

- Roast the sesame seeds lightly on a nonstick tawa/pan. Do not brown them.

- When they cool down (after 10-15 minutes) run them with olive oil in your blender to make a paste. This is Tahini paste.

- Add Garlic and lemon juice to Tahini paste. Add water to get a smooth sauce like consistency.

- Mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Refrigerate it and serve chilled.

- To make yogurt dip mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Refrigerate it also and serve chilled.

- Now to make falafel, put all the ingredients except salt and pepper in your mixie/ processor.

- Grind to a coarse paste adding little water. Do not add a lot of water while processing otherwise it becomes difficult to give them a round shape.

- Shift to a bowl and add salt and pepper. Mix uniformly.

- Heat oil in a thick-bottomed pan. When the oil is hot fry 8-10 balls of falafel mixture till golden brown.

- Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and drain on a tissue paper/newspaper.

- Serve hot with tahini sauce, yogurt dip, hummus, and salad. These are generally served with pita bread.