Oven Baked Falafel

Hi everyone, so lately I’ve been trying to eat less meat and I thought I could make some falafel, but I don’t really eat deep fried things, so I made this falafel recipe in the oven, adjusting the ingredients a little bit.

Ingredients

• 1 Cup home cooked chickpeas.
• ¼ Cup chopped cilantro
• ¼ Cup chopped parsley
• ⅓ Cup chopped onion
• 2 Big or 3 small garlic cloves (minced)
• ¼ Tsp cumin powder
• ¼ Tsp Paprika
• Salt to taste
• ½ Tsp baking powder
• Little Olive Oil

Process

• Chop the cilantro in tiny pieces and do the same with the parsley and the onion.
  Divide the cup of chickpeas in half and place one of the halves in a bowl and the other half in a food processor.
• Process the chickpeas with a little water to form a paste similar in consistency to hummus.
• Using a fork, smash roughly the chickpeas we placed in the bowl (we don't want this to be a paste, we want it to have texture). Add the minced garlic, the cilantro together with the parsley, the onion a little cumin powder, paprika, and the baking powder and some salt. Mix everything together and add the chickpeas paste and mix very well until it’s very well combined
• Now form six equal balls using your hands and place them on an oven plate covered with oven paper. Flat the balls, if they lose their shape, shape them like a patty.
• Finally brush them with a little olive oil. Bake the falafels on a 190 ºC preheated oven for about 10 minutes. After those 10 minutes, remove them from the oven, flip them over (they might stick to the paper, so if you want to use wax paper, or something better go ahead!), brush them again with a little olive oil and return them to the oven and bake for another 10 minutes.
• You can eat them just like this together with a salad for example, or you can make a falafel sandwich using pita bread, onion, tomatoes, lettuce and a delicious yogurt sauce.