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How to Make Falafel at home

Baked Falafel retains all the nutrients of chickpeas which are unfortunately lost in deep frying.

Course Appetizer
Cuisine Baked
Keyword Falafel Recipe Indian, Vegan Falafel Recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Soaking Time 6 hours
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 6
Author Samira

Ingredients

My 1 Cup= 240 ml

  • 1 Cup 200 g Chickpeas (Kabuli Chana)
  • 1 Piece  Onion, Chopped Roughly
  • 3 to 4 Cloves Garlic Crushed
  • 1/2 Cup Parsley Roughly Chopped
  • 1/4 Cup Cilantro Roughly Chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
  • Black Pepper as per taste
  • Salt as per taste
  • 2 Tablespoon Chickpeas Flour (Gram flour or Besan)

Instructions

  1. Wash chickpeas thoroughly and soak them in enough water for 4 to 6 hours or overnight.

  2. Roughly chop onion, garlic, parsley and cilantro.

  3. Once chickpeas are properly soaked and doubled in size, drain all the water and put them in the food processor.

  4. Add chopped onion, garlic, parsley, cilantro, salt and pepper.

  5. Grind coarsely everything. It looks like a crumbled dough and is wet also because of onions.

  6. Take out this crumbled dough in a bowl and add very little chickpeas flour until no longer wet and you can form balls out of it. It should not stick to your hands. If it does, add little more chickpeas flour.

  7. Keep the dough in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. If possible for an hour or two. This resting period allows the excess starch to seep out and mixture binds together easily, thus becomes easy to form balls.

  8. Preheat air fryer for 1o minutes at 180 degrees C.

  9. Mix and make medium sized balls.

  10. When the air fryer is preheated, take out the basket of air fryer and keep the balls in it and put the basket back in the air fryer.

  11. After 7 to 8 minutes. flip the balls so that they are properly cooked from both the sides.

  12. After another 6 to 7 minutes, see that the falafels are properly cooked and golden in colour.

  13. Serve these with hummus or with pita bread and hummus.

Recipe Notes

  1. Ensure that you soak chickpeas in enough water as they absorb water and swell after some time.
  2. Before grinding, put the soaked chickpeas in the strainer so that all water drips out.
  3. If grinding in the grinder then it is better to grind chickpeas only. When coarsely grounded then add other ingredients like onion etc.
  4. In the absence of an air fryer, cook these in an Appe pan or in the oven or pan-fry them. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C for 10 minutes, brush oil on the baking tray and lay falafels on it.
  5. If you want to deep fry these falafels then add a little more chickpeas flour so that they bind properly. Add one falafel in hot oil. If it breaks or falls apart then add a little more chickpeas flour.
  6. Before air frying, you may brush little oil on the balls.