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ThurberMingus  ·  2438 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Falafel Dinner

I tried the recipe. I halved it, and also left out the jalepenos and cilantro, which my wife can't stand, and added some "Za'atar Mix" I found at the grocery store, which is mostly sumac and sesame seeds, with some other unspecified spices. So my recipe was 1/2 lb chick peas, 1/2 onion, 1 largeish clove of garlic, between a 1/2 and a full teaspoon each of ground corriander and za'atar mix, and salt to taste.

My blender does really poor job pretending to be a food processor, so I gave up and switched to a potato masher, which didn't work great either. My dough was pretty chunky, and I blame that for the some of the problems I had. Also I didn't have enough flour at the start. And also I didn't get the oil temp right until halfway through.

The first half either fell apart or burned. The last 10 were pretty good. Unfortunately I took a picture of the middle third and not the good ones at the end.

I absolutely recommend the sumac+coriander combination.