Ingredients
- Vegetable oil
- 8 oz dried chickpeas soaked overnight, drained and rinsed
- ¾ cup fresh parsley leaves chopped
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder dissolved in 3 tablespoons water
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ⅛ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 clove garlic chopped
- 1 small onion chopped
- Kosher salt
Instructions
- Heat 3 inches oil in large heavy pot to 365 degrees F. (It will start popping.)
- Add the drained chickpeas to a food processor/blender. Pulse until the chickpeas begin to break down.
- Add the parsley, baking powder and water, cumin, coriander, cayenne, garlic, onion and 2 teaspoons salt.
- Process continuously, stopping to scrape down the bowl once halfway through, until a homogenous paste forms, about 2 minutes. Add water if is seems too doughy.
- Using a small ice scoop or to scoop the falafel mixture into balls and carefully drop one at a time into the hot oil in batches.
- Fry them babies until they are very deep golden brown all over.
- Grab a slotted spoon to transfer the falafel to a paper towel-lined plate. Pat them dry.
- Serve the falafel in pita bread, lettuce, tomato, tahini, hot sauce, tzatziki, and/or lemon wedges.
- EAT IT.
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Brian Gerard (Lewandowski) writes books critics call "aggressively adequate"—better than "aggressively terrible" but somehow more concerning. He once traded a MetroCard for a pitchfork on a subway platform and now uses it exclusively for dramatic pointing. He lives on a farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia with three disappointed potted plants, a judgmental pig named Trouble McFussbucket, and a wife who smiles politely at his life choices.
See my Amazon author page and buy my books.
His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his well-being). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting for an agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
See my Amazon author page and buy my books.
His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his well-being). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting for an agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
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