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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Soak the fava beans in 1 1/2 cups of cold water. | 2. Set aside for 48 hours, changing water once in a day. | 3. If the weather is hot, change water twice daily. | 4. Soak the chickpeas in 1 1/2 cups of cold water for 15 hours. | 5. Drain beans. | 6. Remove the skins of the fava beans by taking a handful of beans at a time and rubbing both the palms together making the beans rub against one another in order to loosen the skins. | 7. Combine the fava beans, chickpeas, chopped onions and garlic in a food processor. | 8. Grind till you have a fine paste. | 9. Put it in a bowl. | 10. Add parsley, cumin, coriander, red chili, salt, pepper, baking soda and pine nuts to the mixture. | 11. Mix well and knead it nicely. | 12. Keep aside for half an hour. | 13. Take a spoonful of the bean paste at a time. | 14. Shape into patties about 2 inches in diameter. | 15. Arrange the patties in a plate. | 16. Keep aside for 30 minutes. | 17. Heat sufficient oil in a wok. | 18. Once its hot, gently lower the patties and deep-fry them until well-browned. | 19. Drain on clean paper towels before serving. | 20. To prepare the tahini sauce, put the tahini paste and garlic in a blender. | 21. Process for a few seconds. | 22. Add lemon juice and water. | 23. Process the paste well. | 24. Add salt to taste. | 25. To serve: Split up a khoubz and place a lettuce leaf in it. | 26. Place some tomato slices or sliced onions over the lettuce leaf. | 27. Spread some tahini sauce over the onions. | 28. Place 2-3 falafels on it. | 29. Serve hot. | 30. Enjoy! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
fava bean	1/2	cup	dried	255.75	43.7175	19.59	1.1475
chickpea	1/2	cup		378.0	62.95	20.47	6.04
onion	1/2	cup	peeled washed chopped	32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08
garlic clove	1			-	-	-	-
parsley	1/2	cup	washed chopped	10.8	1.899	0.8909999999999999	0.237
cumin powder	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
coriander powder	1	teaspoon		5.364	0.9898	0.2227	0.3199
red chili powder	1/8	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
baking soda	1/2	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
pine nut	1/4	cup	roasted	227.1375	4.4145	4.6204	23.0749
salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
oil				-	-	-	-
pita bread	4 -5			-	-	-	-
onion	1		sliced	32.0	7.472	0.88	0.08
tahini sauce	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
lettuce leaf				-	-	-	-
garlic clove	1			-	-	-	-
tahini	1/4	cup		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
water	1/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lemon juice	1/4	cup		13.42	4.209	0.2135	0.1464
salt				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.