How To Make Falafel
People on the Middle East love Falafel and enjoy it more than any other dish. Falafel is known as the most preferred fast food throughout the Middle East, and it is quite common to find someone asking how to make falafel.
One can prepare Falafel using various recipes, and above all, you can eat Falafel with a variety of dishes and variants. We are going to discuss on how to make Falafel with Israeli sandwiches.
What you will need for Falafel
- Sunflower oil (1/2 cup)
- Frying basket
- Mixed Falafel
- Pita bread pockets
- Cucumbers (2 medium-sized)
- Tomatoes (2 medium-sized)
- Hummus (1 box)
- Tahini (1 box)
- French fries (1 bag)
- 1 can of sour pickles, sliced
- Deep pot

Steps for preparing Israeli Falafel Sandwich
Boil sunflower oil using the pot and prepare basket for frying Falafels.
Use water and combine it with the falafel mixture. Make thick balls and drop them in the basket for frying them until they turn hard.
Now fry some French fries using oil. Fry them until they are golden brown in color and keep them for lesser time for making them soggier.
Remove the pockets from the pita breads and cut them into halves. You can soften the pita bread by keeping it in the oven; warm pita breads are generally tastier than the other ones.
Last step is to stuff your pita bread with delicious Falafel balls, pickle slices, French fries, tomatoes and anything else you like. Put some tahini and hummus in the sandwich and enjoy it.
Important tips for Israeli Falafel Sandwich
These are some tips for best results with Falafel and you can enjoy much better taste with them.
- Most of the Middle Eastern markets are providing Falafel, so you can bring them home for preparing the sandwiches.
- You can use any pita bread leftovers for the next occasion, simple freeze it (but prefer fresh for best results).
- Never overstuff the pita pockets otherwise the sandwich will simply explode once you take a bite from it.
- Be extra careful while frying the Falafel balls, make sure to avoid burning yourself during the process.
- It is better to avoid storing Falafel balls because they are not good after freezing them up.
By now you should have learned how to make Israeli Falafel sandwiches. This dish is best when hot, and further you can add any veggie that you like with it. You can buy Falafel from the market if you don’t have time to make, or try other recipes which will consume far lesser time in preparation. There are various recipes for how to make falafel which takes comparatively less time.
