Easy Baked Falafel
Falafel is a traditional middle eastern food which is served along with Pita bread, hummus, and pickled vegetables. So here is a healthy version of baked falafel
Servings: 18
Calories: 90kcal
Standard 1 cup measures 240 ml
Ingredients
- 2 cups Garbanzo beans or Chickpeas
- 1 Onion
- ¼ cup Corriander Leaves finely chopped
- 5 Garlic
- 1 tsp Pepper
- 2 tbsp Rice Flour as needed
- 1 tbsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli powder
- 1 tsp Cumin Powder
- Salt as needed
- Oil as needed for deep frying
- ½ tsp Lemon juice
Instructions
- Soak chickpeas for about 18 to 24 hours. After soaking drain the excess water and transfer it to a blender.
- To this add chopped onions, Chopped coriander leaves, Whole pepper, sliced garlic. Also add in the coriander powder, cumin powder, Red Chilli Powder, and Salt
- Pulse the blender in intervals. Open the blender and scrape the edges and pulse again until a grainy consistency.
- Drizzle in the lemon Juice
- Now add in Rice flour or any gluten-free flour. Chickpea flour will be another option. If you are not worried about gluten you can use Maida or wheat flour too.
- Combine everything and shape them into patties refrigerate for 1 hour. Heat a tawa with oil.
- Shallow fry the patties on both sides for 1 min each. And then remove the falafel from the tawa
- Preheat the oven at 180 Deg C or 356 F for 10 mins. Arrange all the patties in the oven tray lined with parchment paper. Bake at 180 Deg C or 356 F for 20 mins. After 10 mins flip and bake.
- Baked Falafels are now ready to serve.
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Nutrition
Calories: 90kcal | Carbohydrates: 15.4g | Protein: 4.6g | Fat: 1.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.2g | Sodium: 15mg | Potassium: 226mg | Fiber: 4.2g | Sugar: 2.7g | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 2mg
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