Falafel with cucumber salad and pitta bread

A refreshing vegetarian side salad that is a great party snack or tapa.

Falafel with cucumber salad and pitta bread

Servings:	Serves 4
Calories per serving:	1312
Ready in:	1 hour 15 minutes
Prep. time:	45 minutes minutes
Cook time:	30 minutes
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	JuliaBalbilla
First published:	20th December 2013

Best recipe review Best with garlic yogurt 5/5 Don't bother with the cucumber dressing Jerry

Ingredients

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• For the Falafel
• 2 Medium white onions, quartered
• 3-4 Cloves garlic
• 2 x 410g/14½ oz Cans chick peas, drained
• 2 Teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 Teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• Salt and cayenne pepper
• 25g/1oz Coriander leaves
• 25g/1oz Parsley
• 4 tablespoons plain flour
• Vegetable oil for frying
• For the Cucumber salad
• ½ Red onion, finely chopped
• ¼ Cucumber, deseeded, diced
• 2 Tablespoons fresh chopped mint
• 150g/5oz Natural yogurt
• To serve
• 6 Pitta breads
• 2 Little gem lettuces, shredded
• 1 Red onion, thinly sliced
• Extra fresh coriander to garnish

Method

1. Finely chop the onion and garlic in a food processor.
2. Add the chick peas, cumin, bicarbonate of soda and plenty of seasoning and blitz until a smooth paste.
3. Take out of the processor and put into a bowl.
4. Finely chop the coriander and parsley and stir into the chickpea mixture then press together into a ball.
5. Take off dessertspoons of the mixture and mould into egg shaped ovals with your hands then roll in flour.
6. Chill for 30 minutes.
7. Mix the cucumber salad ingredients together and chill.
8. Pour oil into a frying pan so that it is about 1 cm/½ inch deep, heat up then fry the falafel in batches, turning until crisp and golden brown.
9. Lift out of the pan with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.
10. Continue cooking the falafel in batches until all are cooked.
11. Cook the pitta breads in a hot ridged frying pan or under the grill until puffy.
12. Cut in half and fill with a little lettuce, spoonfuls of the cucumber salad and red onions.
13. Garnish with extra coriander and serve immediately.

See also

• Falafel

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