🇱🇧 Lebanon
Falafel
The Lebanese wrap: chickpea-fava falafel rolled tight with tarator sauce, mint, and pickled turnips.
🔪 Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 15 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
A chickpea-fava blend with seven-spice, always served as a tight wrap with tarator and pink pickled turnip.
Ingredients
- 200 gdried chickpeas, soaked overnight
- 100 gsplit dried fava beans, soaked
- 1 onion
- 4 clovesgarlic
- 1 bunchparsley and coriander
- 1 tspLebanese seven-spice
- 1 tspground cumin
- to tasteoil for frying; tarator, mint, pickles to serve
Method
- 1
Grind the chickpeas and fava with onion, garlic, and herbs to a coarse green mix.
- 2
Season, rest 30 minutes, then add a pinch of baking soda.
- 3
Shape with a falafel scoop and fry until crisp and dark gold.
- 4
Whisk tahini, lemon, garlic, and water into a tarator sauce.
- 5
Roll into markouk or pita with tomatoes, mint, parsley, and pickled turnips.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4