Salad with Lebanese falafel
Lebanese falafel is made from chickpeas or a mixture of chickpeas and broad beans. Neither the beans nor the chickpeas are cooked, but the falafel is made from dried “raw” material, which is soaked for about 24 hours before being crushed. The falafel is flavoured with fresh parsley, coriander and ground cumin and coriander seeds.
Preparation time: Once the chickpeas have soaked, it will take about 1 hour to make the falafel
Level: Easy
Quantity: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients:
300-400g chickpeas
A large handful of fresh coriander
A large handful of fresh parsley
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander seeds
0.5 tsp black pepper
0.5-1 tsp sea salt
4 tbsp flour
2 medium onions
10 medium cloves of garlic
1 tsp baking powder
Cooking oil for frying
For the salad, a variety of lettuce leaves, arugula, romaine lettuce
3-4 cherry tomatoes
A handful of fresh cucumber, cut into desired pieces
A small handful of pomegranate seeds
Feta cheese.
For the sauce, use a hand blender to blend a small handful of parsley, the juice of one lemon, and 4-5 tablespoons of olive oil. Season lightly with sea salt.
Preparation:
- Soak the chickpeas in cold water overnight.
- Pour the chickpeas into a food processor and blend until coarse and grainy. The mixture does not have to be very smooth.
- Blend the parsley, coriander, onion and garlic.
- Mix all the ingredients together, add the flour and baking powder, ground coriander seeds and cumin, sea salt and black pepper.
- Mix everything together until smooth.
- Pour about 2-1.5 cm of cooking oil into a frying pan and heat over medium heat. Do not boil the oil over high heat; otherwise the falafels will break during frying.
- Form the dough into balls about 2.5 cm in diameter; press the balls together well.
- Carefully slide the balls into the hot oil and fry the falafels until golden brown and crispy. Turn the falafels with a spoon while frying so that they fry evenly.
- When the falafels are ready, tear the salad into pieces of the desired size and place on a plate. Place the cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices cut in half on the plate.
- Sprinkle the pomegranate seeds on the salad and feta cheese.
- Using a food processor or blender, blend the parsley leaves and lemon juice, and season the dressing with sea salt. Pour the dressing over the salad.
Arrange the falafels on the salad and serve.
Ready!




























