Falafel
- Vegan
- Lactose free
- Gluten free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
- Good for lunch
- Good for dinner
Falafel from dry chickpeas soaked overnight; pita and dressing are separate sides.
4 servingsFinal yield 850 g
Ingredients
- 350 gChickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram), mature seeds, raw
- 120 gOnions, raw
- 12 gGarlic, raw
- 30 gParsley, fresh
- 20 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
- 4 gSalt, table
Method
- Soak chickpeas in plenty of cold water for at least 12 hours. Drain them; do not cook them.
- Blend chickpeas with onion, garlic, parsley and salt into a coarse mixture. Shape 16 small patties.
- Heat 40 g oil in a pan and fry patties in batches for three to four minutes per side. Drain briefly.
Recipe tradition
Not yet verified
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 1,576.5 kcal
- Protein
- 74.6 g
- Fat
- 41.6 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 237.4 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 46 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 1,658.4 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 4.1 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 394.1 kcal
- Protein
- 18.7 g
- Fat
- 10.4 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 59.3 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 11.5 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 1.2 g
- Sodium
- 414.6 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 185.5 kcal
- Protein
- 8.8 g
- Fat
- 4.9 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 27.9 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 5.4 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 0.59 g
- Sodium
- 195.1 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.49 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- Some ingredient quantities use documented estimates or household-measure assumptions.
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains none of the 14 main allergens.
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal