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| Home made falafel with garlic mayonnaise |
Finding healthy easy to make vegetarian recipes has
been something of a mission for the last 2 years. Since Teen V became a vegetarian
it has been a challenge to get her to be aware of what she eats and, how she can
prepare tasty food for herself. rather than just boiling a pot of pasta.
There is so much lovely fast food around now. Every
market, high street and public space seems to have a really good range of tasty
food, better than anything that was around when I was a teenager.
From slices of vegetable tarts and pies, spicy
wedges, halumi burgers, falafel....
Savoury tarts |
| Savoury strudel |
With this week being the half term holiday here in
England, finding healthy easy recipes that the Teens can make themselves, has
been important for me.
Falafel is always a winner in our house. Inspired
by the amazing falafel at Chez Hanna, in the Marais in Paris, I have been trying out different recipes
for the past few years.
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| Chez Hanna,Paris |
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| Falafel from chez hanna |
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| Fast food on the go in Paris |
Today we needed something quick and healthy to go
with our salad for lunch. This falafel recipe is so simple and quick it is
perfect for a last minute snack or lunch. You can add different spices to it to
suit your taste. This is a plain simple tasty recipe, but also works well with
a pinch of cumin in as well. I haven’t added it as the Teens here like it as it
is.
So here is my
easy vegetarian falafel recipe that takes under 10 minutes to make and is
delicious.
It works well in pitta bread or with just a range of
salads, we had a mixed green salad with avocado and a quinoa salad (see post 4
March 2012 http://notjustforrabbits.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/quinoa-salad.html)
filling,
healthy and nutritious and can be made in minutes.
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| Chick pea falafel |
CHICK PEA FALAFEL
Serves
4
Preparation
time 5 minutes
Cooking
time 3-5 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
1 400g tin of chick peas
2 large spring onions or 4 small ones
1 egg
1 clove of garlic
½ tsp turmeric
1tbsp fresh coriander chopped
A generous glug of Oil for frying
WHAT TO DO:
1. Rinse
the chick peas and put in a blender along with the spring onions and blitz
until smooth.
2. Add
the egg, turmeric, garlic and turmeric and continue to blend until a smooth
paste like mixture.
3. Using
a spoon shape the mixture into small balls. You should manage to make between
12-16 balls.
4. Heat
the oil in a frying pan when hot start to fry to balls until golden.
Lots of recipes suggest deep fat frying the falafel
but I don’t have a deep fat fryer and don’t like them so they take a few
minutes more to fry in the pan but still taste great.
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| Garlic mayo and chick pea falafel |
We served this with a garlic mayonnaise. This was
made using 2 tbsp of shop bought mayonaise and 2 cloves of garlic crushed.
If you like falafel check out my the post last February
2012 for sweet potato falafel and beetroot humus http://notjustforrabbits.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/hockney-and-hummus.html
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