{"id":2376,"date":"2021-08-30T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2021-09-06T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T16:02:54","slug":"falafel-pitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/falafel-pitas\/","title":{"rendered":"Falafel pitas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"931\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013421058.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013421058.jpg 931w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013421058-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013421058-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Falafel with homemade pitas in the background! I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/03\/good-quick-bread\/\">normal dough<\/a> for the pitas, but cooked them in preheated cast iron pans in the oven instead. They almost made pockets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We were following a recipe for baked tofu pitas and I decided to make it more difficult and more delicious by making falafel instead. Buuuut our only chickpeas are old and don&#8217;t cook super well even with soaking and an hour of pressure-cooking, let alone being fried. So I substituted with red lentils instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was trying to figure out what legumes are safe\/traditional to cook in this manner. Seems like lentils are fine, as are chickpeas of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vigna_mungo\">urad dal<\/a> (used in Indian breads like dosa and idli), mung beans (used in Korean <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bindae-tteok\">bindae-tteok<\/a>), cowpeas and black-eyed peas (used in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akara\">akara<\/a>), and fava beans (used in another version of falafel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toriavey.com\/toris-kitchen\/falafel\/\">This recipe<\/a> is pretty good. The cooking notes are useful and the intro has interesting historical info.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"931\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013423443.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013423443.jpg 931w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013423443-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PXL_20210831_013423443-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Accompanied by homemade yoghurt, mint, lettuce, tahini sauce with lemon, salt and pepper, garlic, and water to thin, and tomato-cucmber-onion salad with vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were following a recipe for baked tofu pitas and I decided to make it more difficult and more delicious by making falafel instead. Buuuut our only chickpeas are old and don&#8217;t cook super well even with soaking and an hour of pressure-cooking, let alone being fried. So I substituted with red lentils instead. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/falafel-pitas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Falafel pitas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}