Monday, March 29, 2010

Cooking out of the pantry: Falafel Sandwich


Found a lonely can of cooked fava beans in my pantry which I don't think I noticed before. Decided to make falafel with them as I did not have any canned chickpeas. It's very easy, I just mashed up the drained beans, added some chopped onions, cilantro, a tsp. each of flour and baking powder, cumin, and bit of salt and pepper, formed them into little patties and fried them up in olive oil. I served them with whole wheat pita along with tomato, lettuce and avocado. The sauce is a garlicky tahini-mayo which I made out of Vegenaise, tahini, lemon juice and garlic powder.

Pantry staples used:
1 can fava beans
flour
baking powder
herbs/spices: cumin, salt, pepper
tahini
whole wheat pita

Other items:
onion
cilantro
Vegenaise
lettuce
tomato
avocado

Ingredients I needed to purchase: none

2 comments:

  1. This looks great; can't wait to try it.

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  2. Just started following your blog! It all looks so yummy!

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