Sean's Falafel and Cucumber Sauce

Name: Sean's Falafel and Cucumber Sauce
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 425 grams chickpeas (garbanzo beans), drained; 1 pinch cayenne pepper; 1 cucumber - peeled, seeded, and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon dried dill weed; 237 milliliters dry bread crumbs; 1 egg; 118 milliliters fresh parsley; 2 cloves garlic, chopped; 1 teaspoon ground coriander; 2 teaspoons ground cumin; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 4 servings oil for frying; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 1 onion, chopped; 1 dash pepper; 170 grams plain yogurt; 1 teaspoon salt; 4 servings salt and pepper to taste

Sean's Falafel and Cucumber Sauce requires around 1 hour from start to finish. This recipe makes 4 servings with 311 calories, 13g of protein, and 11g of fat each. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a main course. Head to the store and pick up onion, garlic, ground coriander, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the baking powder you could follow this main course with the Simple Raspberry Lemon Cake as a dessert. This recipe is typical of middl eastern cuisine.

Instructions

In a small bowl combine yogurt, cucumber, dill, salt, pepper and mayonnaise and mix well. Chill for at least 30 minutes.

Ingredients you will need

Mayonnaise

Cucumber

Pepper

Yogurt

Dill

Salt

Equipment you will use

Bowl

In a large bowl mash chickpeas until thick and pasty; don't use a blender, as the consistency will be too thin. In a blender, process onion, parsley and garlic until smooth. Stir into mashed chickpeas.

Ingredients you will need

Chickpeas

Parsley

Garlic

Onion

Equipment you will use

Blender

Bowl

In a small bowl combine egg, cumin, coriander, salt, pepper, cayenne, lemon juice and baking powder. Stir into chickpea mixture along with olive oil. Slowly add bread crumbs until mixture is not sticky but will hold together; add more or less bread crumbs, as needed. Form 8 balls and then flatten into patties.

Ingredients you will need

Baking Powder