Falafel / Chick Peas Vadai

Falafel is orginally arabic snack became popular in Israel. It usually served as a sandwich with pita bread. But it also be eaten alone as a snack. Here I have given the regular falafel recipe and I tried this as masala vadai. There is no big difference in taste between masala vadai with channa dal and  with chick peas. Do try this
 

Ingredients ( To make falafel)
Soaked Chick Peas / Konda kadalai – 2 cups
Green Chilly – 2
Cilantro – a handful
Parsley – a handful
Garlic – 2 pods
Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
Coriander – 1/2 tsp
All Purpose flour – 2 tsp
Baking soda – 1/2 tsp
Pepper – 1/8 tsp
Salt

Method
1. Grind coarsley the soaked chick peas as we do for masala vada. Keep is aside.
2. Grind green chilly, garlic, Cilantro, parsley roughly adding few chick peas with this.
3. Add salt ,pepper,all purpose flour, cumin, corriander powder, baking soda and mix everything together. Make small balls or like masala vada.
4. Heat oil on medium and fry the balls until nice brown. (dont over heat the oil, it will make the balls brown quicker and the inside wont get cook properly)

To make like regular masala Vadai
Soaked chick peas – 2 cups
Shallot onions – 6 to 7 sliced
Green chilly – 2 to 3 chopped
Fennel – 1/2 tsp
Cilantro a handful chopped

Grind the chick peas coarsley and mix all the ingredients together and make like vadai and fry in oil. This tastes like regular masala vadai.

Note:
To Make masala vadai instead of chick peas use channa dal, and follow the same recipe for perfect crispy vadai’s.

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