Sweet potato falafels in homemade pita bread

Falafels, I can never get them right ...until now .... 

Ingredients:

1 sweet potato, medium size

250 gr cooked chickpeas
2 cloves of garlic
juice of half lemon
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground turmeric 
1 Tbsp tahini
salt and pepper 
sesame seeds

First, peel the sweet potato and cut it into chunks. Steam it for 20 minutes or until very soft. 
In a food processor place half of the chick peas, sweet potato, garlic, lemon juice, oil, tahini, spices and seasoning . Pulse until smooth then add the rest of the chickpeas and pulse once more but make sure the chickpeas is semi crushed .
Place the sesame seeds into a plate.
Using your hands ( preferably wet ) form patties and roll them into the sesame seeds.
Place them on a baking tray.
Repeat until all the mixture is gone.
Bake them on 180 C for 35 - 45 minutes. 

for the Pita breads you will need:

200 gr white flour
50 gr wholemeal flour
1 tsp dry yeast
half a tsp of salt
1 - Tbsp olive oil
180 ml water

Make the dough and leave it to rest for 45 minutes.
Divide the dough into 5 - 6 balls and roll each ball flat. 
Place a cereal bowl us side down on the top of the flat dough and cut around using a knife.
I know from practice that cutting the dough in this way will help it rais better in oven.
Place the rounds onto a baking tray and bake for 7 -8 minutes on 200 C.

Both falafels and pita breads freeze well. 

Serve the falafels with some yogurt and cucumber sauce as well as any fresh veggies you have...

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Recipe for the falafels:

2 cups of semi cooked brown lentils

1 clove of garlic

juice of half lemon

lots of parsley

2-3 tbsp olive oil

1 tbsp flour

Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse it.

Using you hands make 12 falafels, place them in a baking tin and bake them on 180 C

for 20 minutes.

The recipe is from here

Recipe for the flax crackers:

120 gr white bread flour

40 gr wholewheat flour

40 gr rye flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp of sesame seeds

1 tsp caraway seeds

1 tsp poppy seeds

4 tbsp olive oil

2 tsp flax seeds 

150 ml water

First, place the flax seeds into a small cooking pot with 150 ml of cold water.

Cook them on medium heat for 5 minutes after they boiled.

Cool down the mixture before you add to the dry ingredients, add the oil and make a dough.

Wrap the dough with cling film and leave it to rest for 20 minutes on room temperature.

Roll the dough into a rectangle shape as tin as possible and cut it into a strips.

Prick them with fork and place them into a baking tray. 

Bake the crackers for 12-14 minutes on 200 C.

The recipe is from this blog

Hummus:

300 gr cooked chick peas

1 tbsp tahini 

2 -3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

juice of half lemon

salt and pepper 

water

Place all ingredients into a food processor and pulse it until smooth!

Spread it , dip into it, love it, it's full of well needed calcium.