Falafel

[unspeakablehorror]

Last night I prepared the last of my gluten free falafel mix.  It was delicious, but I wanted to know how I could make more falafel in the future even if I can't get a gluten free mix so I looked up how to make it from scratch and it...actually doesn't look too bad?  So I'm planning to get some canned chickpeas and make some more with those.

Comments

[rugessnome]

It's my understanding that the most traditional falafel are A) made from chickpeas and/or fava beans* that have been soaked a long while but not cooked and B) are deep fried (and spherical!), but I usually use a not so traditional recipe of baked patties made with cooked or canned chickpeas

*I am not going to really weigh in on which (chickpeas are easier for me admittedly), but I've run across a neo traditional recipe that uses part lima beans with this method and their cyanogenic glycosides make me nervous about that. (I am also not the biggest lima bean fan, though I suspect I'd think they were fine in combination with something else using my usual method.)

[unspeakablehorror]

Yeah, I saw some recipes using the soak-overnight method for the chickpeas and I might try that sometime, but probably I will use canned mostly since that will be faster.

I can definitely understand being nervous about not thoroughly cooking lima beans. It's possible the extended soaking leeches the toxins out, but regardless I don't like to take chances with beans that are known to have high concentrations of toxins and I would probably also feel more comfortable cooking them first.