Steps to Make Super Quick Homemade Pitta bread with Falafel and Hummus
by Mason McKenzie
Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pitta bread with falafel and hummus. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Vahchef is very fond of cooking and her Recipes are very unique and fit for busy women specially working women. This is taste snack recipe prepared with aroma of that particular pita bread stuffed with falafel. In Arabic the word hummus is used to describe a dish or a dip made of ground chickpeas, tahini (sesame seed paste), lemon juice, and garlic, and often olive oil. Cut the pita bread into two half so that it open like a pocket.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pitta bread with falafel and hummus using 17 ingredients and 28 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pitta bread with Falafel and Hummus:
Prepare Falafel
Prepare 1 cup cheakpeas/Kabuli chana
Prepare handful coriander leaves
Make ready 1/2 tsp coriander powder
Get 1/2 tsp cumin powder
Take to taste Salt
Get 1/2 tsp chilli powder
Make ready 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
Get 2 tbsp maida / refined flour / plain flour
Make ready As needed Oil for deep frying
Make ready 1/2 tsp lemon juice
Make ready 1/4 tsp baking soda
Get Hummus
Make ready 120 gm cheakpeas
Make ready 3 tbsp sesame Seeds
Get 4 tbsp olive oil
Take 1-2 spoon lemon juice
Split the pitta bread in half and fill the pockets with the mixed salad. Tuck three to four falafel into each pitta, top with a little hummus sauce and serve with lemon wedges. Stuff wheat-free bread with falafels, hummus, red pepper and rocket leaves for a healthy and filling lunch. Spread the hummus on the inside of each pitta, then layer with the falafels, pepper and rocket.
Steps to make Pitta bread with Falafel and Hummus:
Firstly soak one cup of cheakpea with enough water overnight
Next day drain the water and Transfer to the bowl
Also add fistful coriander and 1/2 coriander powder, 1/2 cumin powder, 1/2 chilli powder, 1/2 pepper powder, lemon juice and salt to taste
Additionally, add in 2 tbsp maida
Blend it coarsely in a food processor without adding any water.
Add baking soda and mix it well
Now wet your hands and prepare small sized balls. If the dough is sticking then add a tbsp more of maida
Deep fry that balls in hot oil
Once the Falafel turns to golden brown, drain off on to the kitchen paper
Finally, falafel is ready to serve. Enjoy this with hummus and for more taste enjoy with pitta bread.
So now for the hummus, rinse 120 gm cheakpea in water first and then soak with enough water overnight.
After the soaking cheakpeas will double in size and volume.
Next day, rinse the cheakpeas with water first a couple of times
Drain all water and add cheakpeas in pressure cooker then add 1/2 tsp salt and pinch of baking soda.
Add 1.5 cups of water and keep the pressure cooker on a medium flame for 10 to 12 minutes.
When the pressure settled down on it's own in the cooker, remove the lid and check the cheakpeas
Mash them with spoon or with your fingers. You should mash them completely. They should have no rawness in them
Now heat a small pan and keep the flame low. Add sesame seeds in that pan.
On a low flame stiring often roast sesame seeds
Roast till they become crisp.
Now main part of making hummus. In mixer grinder take the roasted sesame seeds
Powder it to semi fine texture.
Add 1 or 2 spoon of lemon juice it will give you more tangy taste.
Add 4 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil and little bit salt as we have already boiled the cheakpeas with salt.
Blend it in fine consistency. Now add cooked cheakpeas into that mixture.
Grind it till smooth and light.
Hummus is ready
Pitta bread you can buy readymade
Stuff wheat-free bread with falafels, hummus, red pepper and rocket leaves for a healthy and filling lunch. Spread the hummus on the inside of each pitta, then layer with the falafels, pepper and rocket. TAHINI & HUMMUS DIP, A Must DIP with Falafel and Kababs. The homemade falafel in pita bread can be moistened with some of our desi green chutney or either by authentic lebanese garlic sauce. Further to make Lebanese falafel stuffed in pita bread we have made a dip using curd, garlic, spring onion and sugar.
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