Today I made falafel with my brother! It was delicious. We ate it with homemade(not authentic but still good) tzatziki sauce (even though it’s Greek and falafel is Middle Eastern–we didn’t have the stuff to make tahini sauce). It was delicious! Even though I was a little dubious about it, I ended up loving it! Here’s the recipe so you can recreate it at your own house, but bear in mind that these ingredients are not completely exact:
Falafel Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups of water
2 cups of falafel mix (We used falafil mix)
Olive/cooking oil
Tzatziki sauce ingredients:
2 cups of Greek yogurt
2 tablespoons of white vinegar
4 tablespoons of relish
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 green onion
1 clove of minced garlic
salt, black pepper, and oregano to taste
Directions:
1. Mix all of the ingredients for the tzatziki sauce thoroughly and refrigerate it for about 8 or so hours or overnight, like we did.
2. Mix the falafel mix and water and refrigerate it for the same amount of time.
3. Fill a frying pan with cooking oil until it is about a centimeter high on the pan and put it on medium to high heat.
4. Shape balls out of the falafel mix and set it into the pan carefully–the oil may splash out of the pan.
5. Fry the falafel until it is nice and crispy on both sides.
6. Set the falafel on a plate with a paper towel to let the oil drain out of it.
7. Dip it into the sauce and enjoy!
Here’s a photo gallery:
Finished tzatziki sauce
Balling up the falafel before cooking
Falafel being cooked and crispy
The finished product! (My brother’s holding it)
Iced Tea With Vinegar 