Christmas and the new year festivities are sadly over…sigh.
But after a few indulgent weeks, we’re both ready to get back to a healthy and balanced diet with lots of lovely nutritious meals.
These beetroot falafels are packed with lots of good stuff, including iron and omega-3 fatty acids, and baking is a great way to reduce the calorie count.
Enjoy!
Roxy & Ben
Baked Beetroot Falafel
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200g / 7.1oz raw beetroot
- 1/2 onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 x 400g / 14.1oz tin chickpeas
- large handful of parsley (20g / 0.7oz)
- 1/4 cup walnuts
- 80g / 2.8oz breadcrumbs
- 1/2 lemon
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- salt + pepper
- olive oil
To serve:
- 5 pitta breads
- cucumber
- tomato
- red onion
- hummus
- mixed salad leaves
- chilli sauce
- vegan plain yoghurt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C / 390°F fan and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Peel and roughly chop the beetroot, onion and garlic and transfer to a food processor. Then drain, rinse and pat dry the chickpeas and transfer to the food processor along with the parsley (large stalks removed), walnuts, breadcrumbs, zest from the lemon half, cumin, pinches of salt and pepper and 2 tsp of olive oil. Pulse the ingredients a few times until they have broken down and the mixture holds but is still quite rough.
- Take a small handful of the falafel mixture and compress it into a ball roughly the size of a golf ball, then transfer to the baking tray. Repeat this step until all of the falafel mixture has been used up and pressed into balls. You should be left with 15 or so falafel balls. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile heat the pittas in the oven or in the toaster until warm. Next slice the cucumber, tomato and red onion. Then slice open the pittas on one side and fill with a spread of hummus, a handful of mixed leaves and slices of cucumber, tomato and red onion. Remove the falafels from the oven and place 3 in each pitta. Serve with a drizzle of chilli sauce and vegan yoghurt.
12 comments
How do you make the garlic sauce?
Hey Pamella. We simply mixed soya cream, minced garlic and parsley. You can play around with the quantities until you’re happy with the taste and texture. Hope that helps! Thanks, Roxy (So Vegan)
Hi there, these would be great for school lunches, have you tried freezing them at all? Thanks
Hey Sal. We haven’t tried freezing the falafels but there’s no reason why you can’t. Thanks, Roxy (So Vegan)
Had this tonight. It was delicious. Any chance you can document calories? I calorie count and it would be useful. Thanks
Thanks Andrea! We didn’t get around to including a calorie count but it’s something we’re looking into for future recipes. Thanks, Roxy (So Vegan)
Looklike 1400g chickpeas is To much… 400g is ok
I love your page. It’s helpful going vegan.
Thanks Felecia!
This looks fantastic. Tzatziki sauce (vegan) would go great with this, wouldn’t it!
Easy and gorgeous! Exactly what I needed. Thank you very much!
I’m not a vegan but a vegetarian and it’s always a pleasure coming across such dishes! And who doesn’t love a good falafel Thanks for sharing the recipe!