The discovery

My wife love libanese/egyptian food and of course, the falafels. It's a quite long recipe (soaking chickpeas, mixing, fresh ingredients, deep-fry ...) so she prefered buy premix, just need water, heat and it's ready

the problem is the ratio ingredients/prices

• chickpeas 30%
• bread crums
• wheat semolina
• sugar, salt, sunflower oil, arsnip, rice flour ...

18,33€/kg for around 55% of bread ...

The recipe

we will change the ratio to 2 portion of chikpea for 1 for breadcrumb

Ingredients

• breadcrumb
• chikpea flour
• all the spices you want
• sesame seed

Breadcrumb

Store your bread in a box once he is really dry (otherwise he can become moldy )

For our preparation, place it inside a mixer to obtain your prefered texture (thin for compact falafel or bigger for more airy)

If you don't have a mixer, just place the bread in a tissu and smash it with a hammer ... work fantastic

The Falafel

Place 2 cup of chickpea flour with 1 cup of breadcrum in a bowl and repeat for the desired proportion

add as much spices you like ... fenugreek tarragon pepper ginger ... just go wild

prepare boiling water on the side and gently integrate it

once you obtain this texture it's time to cover your mix and let it rest for 5 minute

take a small portion in your wet hand

roll it to obtain a nice ball

roll the ball in a small bowl wich contain the sesame seeds, it will help to don't stick in the hoaven

place the falafel 15-20 min in the pre-heat hoven at 180° once you can put a knife in the falafel and it's clean, you can get them off !

example with peanut, pumpkin, rice & homemade mayo

we roughlty divided the price by 2 (bio chickpea flour is at 8,20€/kg ), and put only the spices we wanted !