Crispy Falafel with Hummus

Name: Crispy Falafel with Hummus
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: For pickled vegetable:; 1 cup water; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/2 cup white vinegar; Pinch salt; 1 carrot; 1 beetroot; 1 cucumber; For Classic Hummus:; 1 bowl boiled chickpeas; 4 tbsp olive/vegetable oil; 1 tsp cumin seed powder; 1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds; 1 tbsp lemon juice; to taste Salt; For Falafel:; 1 1/2 cup boiled chickpeas; 1 roughly chopped onion; 5-6 cloves garlic; 2-3 Green chillies; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1 tsp coriander powder; 1 tbsp lemon juice; Pinch baking soda; to taste Salt; 1 tbsp corn flour; as required Bread crumbs for coating; as required Oil for deep or shallow frying; As required Olives for garnishing

Nikita Choithani @Chef24

Falafel is a fried middle eastern fried snack made with chickpeas or fava beans, herbs and spices. They can be made as patties or balls. It is also a popular street food in the middle east. Falafel is mostly served in pita bread with Hummus, tahini sauce, pickled vegetable.
Keyword #chickpea

Nikita Choithani @Chef24

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Ingredients

45 minutes

3 servings

For pickled vegetable:
1 cupwater
1/2 cupsugar
1/2 cupwhite vinegar
Pinchsalt
1carrot
1beetroot
1cucumber
For Classic Hummus:
1 bowlboiled chickpeas
4 tbspolive/vegetable oil
1 tspcumin seed powder
1 tbsproasted sesame seeds
1 tbsplemon juice
to tasteSalt
For Falafel:
1 1/2 cupboiled chickpeas
1roughly chopped onion
5-6 clovesgarlic
2-3Green chillies
1 tspcumin seeds
1 tspcoriander powder
1 tbsplemon juice
Pinchbaking soda
to tasteSalt
1 tbspcorn flour
as requiredBread crumbs for coating
as requiredOil for deep or shallow frying
As requiredOlives for garnishing

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Steps

45 minutes

1

For picked vegetable: Heat water in a pan and add sugar and let it dissolve then turn off the flame. Add white vinegar and mix well.
2

Now add sliced cucumber, beetroot and carrot and mix well. Add pinch of salt too.
3

After 6 hours of soaking our pickled vegetable is ready.
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For Classic Hummus ingredients. Soak chickpeas overnight and boil and use it.
5

In a mixer jar, add chickpeas, garlic, sesame seeds, salt, cumin powder, and grind.
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Now add olive oil and lemon juice and grind till smooth paste.
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For Falafel ingredients:
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In a mixer jar, add boiled chickpeas, green chilies, garlic, roughly chopped onion, coriander, cumin seeds, salt, soda, lemon juice, and coriander powder and mix coarsely.
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Add cornflour in this mixture so that it combines the Falafel. Start making small balls and coat it in bread crumbs.
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Now either you can deep fry the falafel or shallow fry them. Here I have shallow fried them.
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Assemble the pickled salad, hummus and falafel and serve. An healthy dish which you can binge on.
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Note - I have used boiled chickpeas for falafel you can use overnight soaked chickpeas and for that there is no requirement of corn flour and bread crumbs. You can directly make balls and deep fry them.