Best Easy Healthy Falafels Recipes

EASIEST FALAFEL

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Super quick and easy - you will probably have all the ingredients in your pantry already! Serve with your favorite sauce! I served mine with spicy mayo, made by mixing 3 tablespoons mayo with 1/2 tablespoon sriracha. It would also be great with tzatziki or spicy mustard.

Provided by jaclyncady

Categories Appetizers and Snacks Beans and Peas

Time 30m

Yield 5

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

1 (16 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained
¼ cup panko bread crumbs, or as needed
¼ cup chopped onion
¼ cup olive oil
1 egg
2 tablespoons dried parsley
1 tablespoon curry powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon lemon juice
½ tablespoon ground black pepper
¼ cup panko bread crumbs, or as needed
1 cup olive oil for frying, or as needed

Steps:

Place garbanzo beans, 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs, onion, 1/4 cup olive oil, egg, parsley, curry powder, garlic powder, lemon juice, and black pepper in a food processor or blender. Puree until coarse crumbles form. Blend more panko crumbs into mixture if it is too moist.
Roll mixture into balls about the size of a golf ball; place on a plate.
Press into patties and coat in panko bread crumbs.
Heat about 1-inch olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.
Pan-fry patties until crispy, about 3 minutes on each side.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 300.9 calories, Carbohydrate 31.8 g, Cholesterol 37.2 mg, Fat 17.8 g, Fiber 5.1 g, Protein 7.6 g, SaturatedFat 2.6 g, Sodium 342.7 mg, Sugar 1 g

EASY HEALTHY FALAFELS

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Pair John Torode's easy falafels with soft flatbreads, well-spiced humous and crunchy pickles for a magnificent meze of a lunch, or a shareable starter

Provided by John Torode

Categories Lunch, Supper

Time 35m

Yield makes 16

Number Of Ingredients 15

Ingredients

250g dried chickpeas or dried split broad beans
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
3 garlic cloves
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 leek, roughly chopped
1 celery stick , roughly chopped
1 small chilli, roughly chopped (deseeded if you don't like it too hot)
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp sumac
good handful chopped coriander
good handful chopped parsley
80g gram flour
100ml vegetable oil
houmous, tabbouleh and pickled red onion & radish (see goes well with), flatbreads, shop-bought or see goes well with (optional)

Steps:

Soak the chickpeas in cold water for 8 hrs, or overnight.
Drain the chickpeas and pulse with the bicarb in a food processor until roughly chopped. Remove 3/4 of the mixture and set aside.
Add the garlic, vegetables, spices and herbs to the remaining mixture in the processor and purée to a paste. Stir the paste into the rough purée of chickpeas, add the gram flour, season and mix well.
Heat oven to 110C/90C fan/gas 1/4. Heat a large, non-stick frying pan over a medium heat and add some of the oil. Use your hands to form the mixture into patties (there should be enough to make about 16). Fry for 2 mins each side until crisp. Keep in a warm oven while you fry the remainder of the mixture, continuing to add a little oil to the pan with each batch. Serve wrapped in flatbreads, if you like, alongside the houmous, tabbouleh and pickled red onion & radish.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 139 calories, Fat 7 grams fat, SaturatedFat 1 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 11 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 1 grams sugar, Fiber 3 grams fiber, Protein 5 grams protein, Sodium 0.1 milligram of sodium