Chickpea falafel with toasted pita breads and tzatziki
Chickpea falafel with toasted pita breads and tzatziki

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Falafel made with canned chickpeas - just like the ones you taste in a Greek restaurant. Add bread crumbs slowly and combine using your hands until mixture isn't sticky, but will hold together when I served them in pita pockets with chopped tomatoes, chopped romaine lettuce and homemade tzatziki. Falafel has long been a favorite Middle Eastern street food.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chickpea falafel with toasted pita breads and tzatziki using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chickpea falafel with toasted pita breads and tzatziki:
  1. Get 1 (400 g) can of Chickpeas, drained
  2. Make ready 1/2 onion, chopped
  3. Prepare 2 cloves garlic, minced
  4. Get Drizzle of olive oil
  5. Get Drizzle of garlic infused olive oil
  6. Prepare 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  7. Get 1 teaspoon cumin
  8. Get 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  9. Take 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  10. Take 1 handful fresh coriander, chopped
  11. Prepare Flour to dust
  12. Get 1/4 cup canola oil
  13. Get 1/4 small red cabbage, chopped
  14. Get 4 radish, sliced finely
  15. Get To garnish fresh coriander
  16. Take 1/2 cucumber, grated
  17. Prepare To taste salt
  18. Make ready 2 tablespoons olive oil
  19. Prepare To taste pepper

Pulse, stopping once or twice to scrape down the sides, until a coarse mixture that holds together UGC Reviews Modal. Reviews for: Photos of Falafel Pita Sandwiches with Tzatziki. Falafel is an assembled mezze of chick pea patties sandwiched between pita bread. For making homemade falafel in pita bread, we need to first make the bullets, a dressing then toast the pita bread and For toasting the pita bread.

Instructions to make Chickpea falafel with toasted pita breads and tzatziki:
  1. Drain the chickpeas from canned brine. And add to a bowl. With a potato masher, mash the chickpeas.
  2. In a dry pan on medium heat, toast the cumin, cumin seeds, paprika for 1 minute until fragrant. Add to the mashed chickpeas. Then add the garlic, chopped onion, chopped coriander and salt and pepper to taste. Stir to combine.
  3. Add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice(reserving the other for the tzatziki) and a good drizzle of olive oil to the chickpea mix, mold to form balls. Dust lightly with flour.
  4. In a pan, on medium-high heat, heat the oil and fry the falafel until golden brown on both sides. Drain on kitchen paper. For a healthier option, instead of frying, you can bake the falafel in the oven till golden brown.
  5. To make the tzatziki, grate the cucumber in a small bowl and squeeze out all liquid from the grated cucumber. Once all moisture has been drained, add to this 1/2 cup of plain double cream yoghurt, a drizzle of olive oil, a drizzle of garlic infused olive oil, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Stir to combine.
  6. Chop the cabbage finely along with the radish.
  7. To assemble, toast the pita breads in the toaster or oven. Cut in half, and make slits in the middle to form a pocket, add the chickpea falafel balls, spread the tzatziki along the sides add red cabbage and radish. Garnish with fresh coriander and a drizzle of more tzatziki. Enjoy! :)

To make falafel in pita bread, cut a pita bread into two vertically. For Pita bread recipe start off with a layer of tzatziki sauce inside the pocket, then add falafel, shredded lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, some onion rings and to finish off with a generous layer of tzatziki sauce. Traditionally, falafel patties are fried till they are crispy on the outside and soft on the. Falafel is the original veggie burger and is a common dish throughout the Middle East. It is found in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, and is especially popular with Palestinians.

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