Healthy Vegan Falafel

This is a healthy vegan falafel recipe, without deep frying and with lots of fresh parsley!  It’s so easy to make and I’m sure this healthy vegan falafel will become one of your favorite recipes too! 

If you’d ask me how an ideal meal looks for me, I would tell you that it is made of veggie patties, fluffy mashed potatoes and a huge salad. For me, nothing is more delicious than this and as simple as it may sound, there’s no other meal that makes me happier! 😀

I think it reminds me of my childhood when my grandma used to make me mashed potatoes with butter, served with a large steak or meat patties aside. Of course, I wasn’t vegetarian back then.

This falafel/chickpea patties recipe is, in my opinion, the best vegan falafel recipe I’ve ever tried! It’s not the traditional falafel recipe! I adapted it to my preferences and made it healthier, without deep-frying! If you want to know more about falafel, its origins, and benefits, scroll down to the bottom of this article.

Hope you’ll like this vegan falafel recipe as much as I do! Check out my healthy version, below. Also, take a look at this recipe of mini falafel bites which resembles the traditional falafel recipe a bit more. 🙂

Healthy Vegan Falafel

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Healthy vegan falafel recipe, without deep frying, GF flour and with lots of fresh parsley!

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Course Main

Cuisine Middle Eastern

Servings 20

Calories 90 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 800 g boiled chickpeas canned – You can use dry too, but if you want to have these chickpea patties ready in 25 minutes, then you should use canned chickpeas. If you’ll use dry chickpeas, you have to soak them overnight
• 2 Tbsps psyllium husks or ground flax seeds
• 1 cup parsley chopped
• 1 carrot grated
• 1 onion diced
• 6 cloves garlic mashed
• 4 Tbsps chickpea flour or any other type of flour
• 1 tsp sweet paprika
• ½ tsp ground cumin
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 Tbsps tahini
• oil 3-4 Tbsps for frying

Instructions

 

• Add boiled chickpeas in the food processor and blend well until they have a paste-like consistency.
• Put them in a large bowl and blend in all the other ingredients, except oil.
• Heat some oil in a non-stick frying pan.
• Make the patties – 1 Tbsps per patty.
• Fry them 2 minutes on each side.
• Put the falafels on a plate covered with a paper towel, in order to absorb all excess oil.
• Serve!

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Notes

P.S. I LOVE Lebanese cuisine. If you love it too, check out Ottolenghi: The Cookbook. His recipes are truly inspiring!

Nutrition

Calories: 90kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 4gFat: 2gSaturated Fat: 0.2gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 9mgPotassium: 177mgFiber: 4gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 825IUVitamin C: 5mgCalcium: 34mgIron: 2mg

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