Falafel (en)

This is a nice recipe to eat chickpeas, it is quite tasty and can be used to fill some pita breads with vegetables inside or either as a side dish with some vegetables. Always when I cook this people start to eat lots of them but remember, it is almost 99% chickpeas. Also one of the good things of this recipe is that the falafel doesn't come out fatty after frying, since it comes out of the oven, that makes for a good consistency without added fat.


Ingredients:
- 300g chickpeas
- 3 gloves of garlic
- fresh coriander
- 3 grated carrots
- cumin, curry, pepper and salt
- 2 potatoes or flour (optional)

Procedure:
The chickpeas should be boiled and blended until they become a nice smooth paste. Afterwards in the same container, add the garlic, carrots and pepper, salt, cumins and curry according to taste. Mix these ingredients until the mixture becomes homogeneous, then add the chopped coriander. If the paste is not really thick, you can add either the potatoes or the flour to give more consistency to the paste in order to make the balls. Be aware that adding potatoes or flour will make the taste more mild, so perhaps you want to add some more spices. When the mix has a texture in which you can work with, sticky but not thick, start to make the balls, not too big and not too small. Place them in the oven at 180C around 30 min, if your balls are small leave them less time or if they are bigger maybe a bit more time, but that is a matter of taste. Enjoy it, this is one of my favorite recipes.