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Falafel salad with beetroot hummus and tzatziki

Salads are the freshest, crunchiest way to your 5+ a day, and oh-so easy to throw together!

  • Time to make: 30 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Falafels
    • 1 small onion, quartered
    • 1 clove garlic
    • ½ bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
    • 400g can no-added-salt chickpeas in water, drained
    • ¼ cup almonds
    • 1 tablespoon plain flour
    • 1 teaspoon ras el hanout spice mix
    • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (or canola oil)
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    • Salad
    • 200g beetroot hummus
    • 100g mixed rocket and watercress or baby spinach
    • 1 cucumber, thinly sliced
    • 1 cup snow peas, trimmed and thinly sliced
    • 1 cup halved cherry tomatoes
    • 4 small radishes, thinly sliced
    • ½ red onion, thinly sliced
    • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinaigrette (½ olive oil, ½ balsamic vinegar)
    • 4 tablespoons reduced-fat tzatziki
    • Handful fresh mint leaves, to garnish
    • 2 tablespoons shelled, roughly chopped pistachios, to garnish (optional)
    • Pomegranate arils, to garnish (optional)
    • 1 large wholemeal Lebanese bread, toasted, roughly broken into pieces
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 To make the falafels, in a small food processor, blitz the onion, garlic and parsley. Add the chickpeas, salt, almonds, flour and ras el hanout, then Blend until just combined. If mixture is too dry, add a little water. Season with ground black pepper. Remove the mixture and knead on a clean board or worksurface until well combined. Shape the mixture evenly into 12 small patties.

    2 Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan and set over a medium heat. Cook the falafels for 5-6 minutes each side until evenly browned.

    3 Evenly spread beetroot hummus over one large serving platter or divided over four plates. Scatter over salad leaves and arrange cucumber, snow peas, cherry tomatoes, radishes and red onion. Drizzle over dressing. Place falafel patties on top and dollop over tzatziki. Garnish with fresh mint leaves, pistachios and pomegranate arils, if desired. Serve with Lebanese bread on the side.

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