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Authentic Egyptian Falafel Recipe Guide

Falafel is a staple in Egyptian cuisine, often enjoyed for breakfast, typically served with tahini sauce and salad. The document provides recipes for falafel, hummus, baba ghanouj, and tahini sauce, detailing ingredients and preparation methods. Pickled turnip is also mentioned as a simple and delicious accompaniment to falafel.

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Authentic Egyptian Falafel Recipe Guide

Falafel is a staple in Egyptian cuisine, often enjoyed for breakfast, typically served with tahini sauce and salad. The document provides recipes for falafel, hummus, baba ghanouj, and tahini sauce, detailing ingredients and preparation methods. Pickled turnip is also mentioned as a simple and delicious accompaniment to falafel.

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Falafel

Falafel is a big part of Egyptian Cuisine. Most Egyptians start their day with a falafel sandwich or
a falafel plate for breakfast or another dish we call foul modames, which is also made from fava
beans. Falafel is usually served with tahini sauce and salad in the sandwich, along with pickled
cucumber or turnip.

Pickled turnip is delicious and very easy to make. Cut the turnip the same way you would cut
french fries and put the pieces in a jar. Add some water, vinegar, salt and crushed red pepper,
then mix it all together. Cover tightly and leave it for three days and then it will be ready to eat.

One bag of Fava Beans Dried Crushed Red Pepper


optional

2 Leeks 4 Tablespoons of Ground Coriander

2 bunches of Cilantro 2 Tablespoons of Ground Cumin

7 cloves of Garlic Sesame seeds

Salt

Oil for frying

Water

Directions

Soak the fava beans in water for 24 hours. In a food processor combine fava beans, the
white part of the leeks, cilantro and garlic. Add some water, just to get it going, and
blend everything until you have a nice green paste. Add salt, ground coriander and
ground cumin. Form the mixture into a ball and decorate with sesame seeds on the top.
Deep fry until golden brown.
Hummus

Hummus is not an Egyptian dish but Egyptians do love it, and it’s also very easy to make. If you
cook the chick peas it will take you about a day to make, or you can use already cooked cans of
peas. I did it the long way, by soaking the chick peas in water for 12 hours, then boiling them in
water with one teaspoon of baking soda. Drain them and put them in the food processor with 1/3
cup of Tahini, salt, garlic, and ground cumin. Add a little water just to get it going and blend it
until you have a nice soft paste.

Chick peas Tahini Garlic

2 cups 1/3 cup 5 cloves

Baba ghanouj:

Here is how to make babaghanouj which is an Egyptian dish. Wash and then roast 1 whole
Eggplant in the oven until it is soft. Put it over an open flame to give it a smoky taste, then peel
the skin and cut it in half. Try to get out as much of the seeds that you can. Then put the
eggplant in the food processor along with 1/3 of a cup of tahini, 4 cloves of garlic, salt and ground
cumin. Blend it until you have a smooth paste.

Eggplant Tahini Garlic

Tahini Sauce:

This is easy to make in no time. Use ½ a cup of tahini. Mince two cloves of garlic, then add them
to the tahini along with one teaspoon of vinegar, salt and water. Stir the mixture and add water
as needed until you get a smooth sauce like what you see in the picture.

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