Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, green lentil falafel. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Green Lentil Falafel is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Green Lentil Falafel is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Lentils have a long history in Mediterranean food traditions, and Chef Rebecca Peizer from The Culinary Institute of America shows us how to make a classic Mediterranean dish, falafel. In this recipe I used green lentils, but you can really go to town using whatever you've got in the Using the same trick used for falafel: soak the legumes for a long time until they soften - but don't. Place the whole green lentils in a large bowl and soak overnight.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook green lentil falafel using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Green Lentil Falafel:
- Take 150 g dry green lentils (275 g soaked)
- Get 1/2 tsp coriander seeds
- Make ready 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper powder
- Take 1/4 tsp fennel seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare dash pepper
- Make ready 1 clove garlic
- Make ready 2 Tbsp chopped chives (or fresh cilantro/coriander)
- Take 1-2 Tbsp flour
- Take oil for frying
- Get Simple Yoghurt Dip
- Prepare 4 Tbsp plain yogurt
- Take to taste salt & pepper
- Make ready to taste Fresh chopped cilantro or parsley
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Steps to make Green Lentil Falafel:
- Soak lentils overnight and drain. (Note: Do not use cooked lentils!! they will fall apart when frying)
- Combine all the ingredients for falafel (except cooking oil of course) in a food processor. Work in batches if needed.
- Process until the lentils are chopped into a grainy mixture. You don't want it to be come a paste.
- Form into balls using about 2 Tbsp of the lentil mix each. (it helps to wet your hands a little to prevent the mixture from sticking). If they are falling apart, add more flour to the mixture.
- Heat enough oil for frying in a frying pot. One the temperature is hot, fry the falafel in batches. When one side is golden brown turn over and fry the other side.
- When all sides are golden remove from oil and let drain on a rack or on paper towels.
- Mix together the yoghurt dip ingredients if using that. Serve and enjoy with the yogurt dip!
Although not common, besides broad beans and chickpeas, falafel can be made from a series of other products and either fried or baked. Serve these fall-friendly falafels—made with red lentils Black Lentil Vegetable Bolognese from Green Kitchen Stories. Here's a great vegetarian take on. We use green lentils, black lentils, brown lentils and red lentils and mix them with lots of You will love our Green Baked Falafel Recipe! It is quick and easy to make, super flavorful and no frying.
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