I do make use of my deep fryer quite often, more than I thought I would when I got it. I cook chips, falafel, onion rings, chunky peppers and onions for curries and Chinese, onion bhajis, chicken Kiev (just to colour the outside before oven cooking), chicken wings, KFC style breaded chicken, it seems to go on and on.

Not all in the same week obviously!

Good video Bob. I like your production style, very clear and easy to follow. Have you tried maki a tahini sauce to go with your falafel..? Here's one example:

http://youtu.be/_a43zC2HzQM

For sure the supermarkets in Husby! I bet G

That's good to see Bob, nice when someone makes a recipe and has success with it. I think your pinches of coriander were more generous than mine as your falafel is greener

Did you have the falafel press already or have you managed to obtain one in just a couple of days?

Another tawa / grill pizza with the second half of the no knead dough. Chorizo, sausage, red pepper and green chilli. I stretched and topped it on aluminum foil on top of a chopping board and just slid it straight onto the tawa, preferring this approach to the riskiness of throwing it off the side of a peel not knowing if it'll hit the tawa or the wall.

Quote from: Micky Tikka on May 13, 2015, 08:07 PM
Good looking pizza there Sverige
I had an evening pizza course last year
One of the tips was to turn a oven tray upside down so you can slide your pizza on and off it 
Cheers MT

Thanks MT. My biggest challenge with pizza is handling the dough as its often so sticky I end up using loads of flour and even then I can't reliably slide it off my "peel" (flour covered chopping board). I'm not sure an upside down oven tray would be any better.

Salami and sausage pizza, with some peppers and onions to brighten it up. Tried a new method today, instead of oven cooking I slid the pizza onto a preheated tawa then under a preheated grill. Seemed to work.

Falafel, if you didn't already know, is a wildly popular Middle eastern snack food. A patty made with chopped up chickpeas, garlic, onion, coriander leaves and often parsley too, plus spices. I don't use parsley because I don't have any in. Like any curry head I do have a ready supply of coriander leaves and stalks, which do just fine.

Cheap, nutritious and damn tasty, it's no wonder most of the countries in the Middle East all like to claim credit for inventing it. If you have a deep fat fryer and a food processor you should get some dried whole chana and start making falafel.

DO NOT USE CANNED CHICKPEAS as they are precooked and have a habit of making falafel which fall apart when fried. You don't have to add flour or egg, these will bind and fry just fine without these spurious additions.

Ingredients, enough for 20 small falafel, (one serving)
75g dried chickpeas, soaked in 4 times their volume of water for 24 hours then drained and dried (150g weight post-soaking)
1 clove garlic
Quarter of a small onion
1/8 lvl tsp baking soda
1/4 lvl tsp ground cumin
1/4 lvl tsp ground coriander
1/4 lvl tsp salt
4 pinches of chopped coriander leaves or stalks. Four good four-fingered grabs
1/8 lvl tsp ground black pepper

Method:
Put chickpeas, garlic and onion into food processor with chopper blade in place and blitz well till reduced to small pieces, but not yet a paste. Add spices and soda plus coriander stalks or leaves and blitz again to mix.
Remove to a bowl and they say you should refrigerate for 30-60 mins at this point but I don't bother.

Form into small balls with wet hands, or get a falafel scoop off eBay or Amazon and shape into falafels.
Fry at 170C for 4 mins and drain on kitchen paper. They should be a fairly deep colour as a lot of the flavour comes from the caramelisation of the surface layer. It's probably not true caramelisation but you know what I mean.
Serve with hummus, tahini sauce, sweet chilli sauce or if you're a heathen like me, ketchup.

Recommended kit:
Falafel scoop
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AMAPSXC/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_0XLuvb117Q72X
Mini food processor
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000C6WPC/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_tYLuvb0M8K17X

It's pretty simple.. I'll post a recipe

Vegetarian day today, and also celebrating the arrival of my new falafel scoop from tel aviv:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AMAPSXC/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_hsLuvb0PXC4X3

I got myself falafelling and turned out 20 from 75g of dry chickpeas. Cheap as chana!