Falafel with Tahini

Name: Falafel with Tahini
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 leaves head lettuce or butter lettuce; 12 thin cucumber slices; 2 teaspoons ground cumin; 1 cup very thinly sliced red onion; Extra-virgin olive oil; 6 tomato slices; 2 tablespoons lemon juice; Hummus, store-bought or homemade (optional); 2 pitas, store-bought or homemade, cut in half; Kosher salt to taste; 2 cloves garlic, smashed; ½ cup/60 grams diced onion, diced; ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional); 6 (½-inch/1-centimeter-thick) slices peeled eggplant; ¾ cup cilantro leaves; 1 garlic clove, smashed and macerated in 3 tablespoons lemon juice; 1 tablespoon creamy peanut butter; 1 cup fresh parsley leaves; 1½ teaspoons cumin; ½ teaspoon smoked paprika; 1½ cups/300 grams dried chickpeas, soaked overnight in water and drained; ¼ teaspoon cayenne powder; ½ cup/120 milliliters tahini; Vegetable oil, for pan-frying; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 2 teaspoons ground coriander

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

From Scratch

By Michael Ruhlman

Published 2019

About

The amazing chickpea becomes falafel with the help of herbs and seasonings, and then it becomes a sandwich, with the standard garnishes except for one important addition, thanks to Ann, who wouldn’t stop talking about the roasted eggplant at L’As du Fallafel, a kosher sandwich shop in Paris that serves what some call the best falafel anywhere. It makes wonderful sense to add eggplant to this sandwich. It adds a depth of flavor that none of the other ingredients can provide,

Ingredients

Main course
Sandwich
Vegetarian

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