Falafels made of peas

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   For the recipe you will need chickpeas, onion, flour, garlic (4 cloves), soda, salt, spices (coriander, cumin, black pepper). Also, a large amount of vegetable oil will be needed during the cooking process.

2. Step 2:

   

   Chickpeas need to be soaked for a couple of hours (or overnight). Then the chickpeas can be boiled until ready (you can until half-cooked, and if it is well soaked, then leave it raw). In my version, chickpeas were cooked for 10 minutes after boiling water. Then the water is all drained.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion and garlic and cut into several pieces (in order to make it easier to grind into a pulp with a blender).

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the peeled garlic and onion in a bowl and grind into a pulp with a blender.

5. Step 5:

   

   Then add spices (I don't have ground ones, since they will be crushed with a blender anyway) and salt. Grind with a blender.

6. Step 6:

   

   Next, add chickpeas and continue to grind with a blender (we try to make the mass homogeneous).

8. Step 7:

   

   Next, add three tablespoons of flour and a teaspoon of soda. If the mixture is too dry, then add 3 tablespoons of water in addition. It happens that when cooking chickpeas, it is not possible to drain the water to the end - in this case, you do not need to add additional water. We mix everything again with a blender (at the same time we continue to grind everything to a homogeneous state). I help myself with a silicone spoon (periodically mix and remove the mixture from the walls).

9. Step 8:

   

   Next, we roll small balls from the chickpea mixture (ideally about 2.5 cm in diameter). If the mixture sticks to your hands a little, then you can periodically sprinkle your hands with flour and the surface on which the balls will be laid out.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour vegetable oil (about 0.5 liters) into a deep container (I have a cast-iron saucepan) and heat it. As soon as the oil becomes well warmed up, the fire will need to be reduced to medium. We throw the balls into the heated oil and fry from all sides.

11. Step 10:

    

    Chickpea balls look like this if there is a lot of oil.

12. Step 11:

    

    If there is not enough oil poured and it barely covers the balls by half or less, then there is a risk that they will fall apart and will not be so round (deformed in the process of turning over).

13. Step 12:

    

    Fried balls are laid out on a paper napkin so that the oil is too much from them (but I skip this stage). Falafels are served with vegetables. It can also be served with some sauce (to your taste). We tried the cheese sauce with falafels - we liked it. Bon appetit!