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I'm going to make, for you, one of my top street food delicacies, the falafel.
Usually made with chickpeas, but I am going to stand outside the box today with sweet
potato falafels with garden pea and feta hummus.
Now sweet potato is going in, the main character.
It's been baked in the oven with a bit of salt, draw the moisture out.
It's really dry.
Think of Palestine, Morocco, places like that.
You've got the coriander, cumin, these things are really predominant.
You've got the minced garlic . Quite a lot of that.
Let's have some fresh coriander.
A little bit of olive oil.
Not too much, remember we want it to be quite dry.
Now we could use any old flour but I'm going to introduce gram flour.
SO we've still got chickpea character in there.
Really, really fine.
Not to grainy and it's quite a dry flour.
Bit of salt and pepper.
I'm trying to remember the flavours when I have a falafel.
I'm going to put a bit of lemon juice in there as well.
Let's whizz it up, let's have a look.
It's not falling off.
That's a good tip.
Perfect.
So hummus.
Pea and feta.
A couple tablespoons of peas.
Frozen garden peas.
Feta!
Probably about 40 grams in there yeah.
It helps it bind it all together.
I'm thinking of sweet potato goes well with feta, peas go really well with feta, so it's
twisting it up.
Bit of tahini so it's very nutty.
That's probably the most predominant flavour.
Bit of salt and pepper.
Bit of olive oil.
Here we go, that's ready.
Look at the nice colour of that!
That's a beauty.
Put it to one side.
Next on the agenda, pickled veg.
I've got turnip and I've got beetroot.
Bit of sugar.
I'm just going to mix it up a little bit.
A little bit of vinegar.
It's sort of the sweet and sour thing going on.
That's going to be left for about 5-10 minutes.
Right.
Last piece, I promise you right now.
We've got the salad.
First chop this up, little matchsticks roughly.
That's good.
Tomatoes, why not chop some coriander through it whilst I'm in a chopping mood.
And you've got some patience.
Right, picture this, you're in your front room falafel stall is set up.
Your Mum's over there watching House, Wife swap or whatever it's called, your Dad's fixing
a light bulb and your nan she's asleep.
Right.
You're there and you want to grab their attention.
Right, here we go, we've got our hummus, we've got our lovely herbs, we've got tomato, cucumber,
little bit of salt, we've got our pickled veg and sweet potato falafel.
Whoo!
Get an ice cream scoop if you have one, if not just grab a spoon!
Oil's hot, get another one in, it can be quite rustic, it doesn't have to be a round ball,
lovely!
Let's turn that heat up a bit.
Get yourself a little bit of parchment paper, because this is going to be encasing your
falafel so none of that oil drips over your mum's new carpet.
First off khobez bread, there you go, we want to get a bit of the old hummus on there, bosh.
Let's have a look at the ol' falafels.
Crisp on the outside, soft in the middle that's what were looking for.
Onto a bit of paper.
Beautiful.
On, two, three, now usually what they do, is they do this and then they break it, okay.
Bit of cucumber, bit of tomato going on.
Get your pickled veg, some herbs.
I'm going to put a bit of chilli in there as well because I like a little bit if spice.
Greek yoghurt, a little bit of that.
Ohh!
I like it.
Guys if you liked this and want to have a go.
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If you have tasted it, leave some comments down below let me know, can I improve it.
Do you know how to roll it better than I do?
Probably not, but if you can, give it a go.
£2.50 please!
Look at that!
Boom!
Crunchy, pickled veg, chilli, loads of herbs, sweet potato, that pea hummus is a winner.
Try it out.
Mmmm.