Falafel Recipe (using chickpeas)

This is a damn good recipe. Except that I cooked the garbanzo beans and, apparently, cooking the beans is what makes them fall apart.

I also burned them a bit… but nothing (not even the Le Cruset) is worse for wear. Besides, if you can’t burn something and make it taste good, you aren’t living.

1 cup chickpeas Dried…never canned. Canned will fall apart.
1 t baking soda
1t salt
1/2 c minced onion
2 T minced parsley
1 t cumin
1 t coriander
2 cloves garlic minced
pepper
1 T lemon juice
1/8 t cayenne pepper

soak chickpeas for 24 hours. drain and grind coarsely like bulgur wheat. add all ingredients except for baking soda. at the very end add the soda (mixing soda too much will cause it to become inert) and form into somewhat loose patties and deep fry. (R uses an inch-ish of oil in the cast iron skillet).