{"id":233,"date":"2014-09-15T22:13:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-09-15T22:13:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T05:13:27","slug":"falafel-accompaniments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/falafel-accompaniments\/","title":{"rendered":"Falafel and Accompaniments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually make falafel from a mix because I have one brand I really like. But recently I&#8217;ve found it to be not as good, and not just because it made me gassy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"dips by leighadactyl, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leighadactyl\/15068082328\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3841\/15068082328_ab48bd8e32.jpg\" alt=\"dips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more keep reading...--><\/p>\n<p>So I decided to make it from scratch. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/markbittman.com\/recipe\/baked-falafel-with-tahini-sauce\/\">Mark Bittman&#8217;s recipe<\/a> because it&#8217;s not too complicated, it uses soaked but uncooked beans, and it&#8217;s specifically for baked falafel, which is what I like to do, because I don&#8217;t like to use so much oil (and by that I mean I don&#8217;t like to use two inches of oil only to throw a lot of it out, not that I&#8217;m trying to keep strictly low fat) and I don&#8217;t like the house to smell fried.<\/p>\n<p>I followed the recipe except when I misread how to use\u00a0the olive oil and mixed it into falafel instead of just greasing the cookie sheet. So I think it turned out a little wetter than it should have been. But they were really good and maybe even better the next day, perhaps because they needed to go a little longer in the oven (because they were too wet?). Next time I won&#8217;t add oil to the mix and will make sure my parsley is more finely processed so there aren&#8217;t big pieces in the falafel, which turned a drab green with baking and didn&#8217;t look that great.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"falafel by leighadactyl, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leighadactyl\/15068086478\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3836\/15068086478_cdf7157a42.jpg\" alt=\"falafel\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also made hummus using my &#8220;recipe&#8221; of one cup of dried chickpeas, soaked and cooked, refrigerated in the cooking water overnight and then drained; juice of two lemons; four to six cloves garlic; tahini; olive oil; salt. I think that&#8217;s all; I always feel like I&#8217;m forgetting something.<\/p>\n<p>I also made baba ganoush using <a href=\"http:\/\/minimalistbaker.com\/simple-baba-ganoush\/\">Minimalist Baker&#8217;s technique (and recipe)<\/a> of slicing and broiling the eggplant to get a smoky flavor. It was not super smokey but was really good and definitely something I will do again. I made the mistake of adding tahini to the baba ganoush which I knew I don&#8217;t\u00a0like, but I was following the recipe&#8230;so I guess that just means I&#8217;ll have to make it again soon.<\/p>\n<p>I also made a yogurt dip which I&#8217;ve been using lately as a veggie dip instead of ranch. It&#8217;s just whole milk yogurt, pressed garlic, lemon juice, salt, dill (fresh is best but dry also works).<\/p>\n<p>I ALSO made a tahini sauce and crumbled some feta. Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually make falafel from a mix because I have one brand I really like. But recently I&#8217;ve found it to be not as good, and not just because it made me gassy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinner","category-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}