In my usual style, these were actually done a week last Sunday (2nd July), and I haven't had the time to process the photos, upload them or write about it.... they were 50:50 chickpeas: white beans. It would have been chickpeas: fava beans but my husband came home with lima beans (again...) I forgot to photo the first (round traditionally shaped) batch and only remembered the 2nd batch whilst the oil was reheating, and then whilst they were frying. I forgot to photo them afterwards! Oops
So...
4 round ones, 9 done flatter for easier frying and 3 left over from the first batch (the remainder were sausage shaped by the way, not round...)
The green is from the fresh parsley and fresh coriander used in my recipe caused by using the food processor, but my recipe states this is normal, so how am I to argue!
The 9 pattie style falafels and the 4 traditionally shaped ones that I remembered to photo (along with a dirty well used gas hob and oil splatters as well!)
The mixture was a touch wet despite no extra water being added and the skins removed from the white (lima) beans. They needed a touch more salt than I added and tbh I used the wrong oil to frying them. I needed something with a much hotter. And we would have preferred them a touch spicier but they were very quickly devoured over the course of two days across 2 meals each... so that made 8 servings.
The hope is that I will be trying again tomorrow, if I remember to soak the chickpeas overnight. This next batch will be 100% chickpeas because we have still been unable to source dried fava beans. I have been considering defrosting frozen broad beans and deskinning them to try that but that can be experiment number 3. I'll add my recipe as a new thread and link back here tomorrow now, because my hubby is home and the laptop gets turned off when he gets home.
This is the recipe I based mine on, or more accurately, this is my revised recipe based around the Vegistan (a cookbook) recipe for Falafel - there is no online version of this recipe that I have yet to find.
https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/vegistan-based-falafel.10372/