Ingredients:
- Lemon
- pita bread loaves
- cooked falafel balls, from homemade or store-bought falafel mix
- 2 medium tomatoes, diced
- 1 medium cucumber, unpeeled and diced
- 1 medium white or red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
- 3 cucumber pickles, optional
- Tahini sauce, homemade or store-bought, to taste. (or sesame based sauce)
Cooking Method:
Prepare the filling. Dice tomatoes, cucumber, onion, parsley and add to a bowl
Prepare the falafel balls. Add sufficient oil to small wok so that each falafel ball can be deep fried. Before frying, prepare the falafel mixture as per instructions on the box. Usually this involves add falafel mix to a bowl, squeezing in half a lemon, add some hot water to the mixture and letting it sit for some time.
When the falafel mixture is ready, head the oil in the wok for 5 mins, then make small falafel balls and add to the wok for deep frying. Fry each surface for about 30 seconds. Check to ensure that balls are not being over fried. Put each ball on a plate over a pass-though metal bowl, to drain any oil.
After all balls are fried, prepare the pita bread by heating both sides on a frying pan. No need to add oil to the pan.
Once ready, people can pick up the bread, add the freshly fried balls, add the fillings, drizzle with Tahini sauce (or sesame sauce) and enjoy with pickled cucumbers on the side.