Mediterranean
Baked Falafel Plate
Baked Falafel Plate is Mediterranean home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups dried chickpeas (soaked overnight)
- 1/2 onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 cup chopped parsley
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1/3 cup tahini
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 6 cups mixed salad greens
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Drain the soaked chickpeas thoroughly and pat them dry, since canned chickpeas are too wet to hold together.
- Heat the oven to 400F and brush a baking sheet with olive oil.
- Pulse the chickpeas, onion, garlic, parsley, cilantro, cumin, coriander, baking powder, and salt in a food processor until finely ground but not pureed.
- Shape the mixture into 16 small patties, set them on the sheet, and brush the tops with olive oil.
- Bake, flipping once, until deeply golden and crisp, about 25 minutes.
- Whisk the tahini, lemon juice, and enough water to make a pourable sauce.
- Serve the baked falafel over the salad greens with the tahini sauce.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Baked Falafel Plate carries sesame. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Beef Kofta Kebabs |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses, Nuts and seeds, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Baked Falafel Plate takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chickpea, tahini, and parsley.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.