Falafel Salad

Falafel Salad

We are all always on the look-out for a new recipe to try, and I, for one, depend on the internet to help me out in this one! Not being too much of a cook.....I generally keep strictly to the directions in the recipe.....trying a new recipe is dangerous enough....lol.

Anyways.....a few days ago I picked up a packet of ready falafel mix. My kids and my husband are not too big on wraps.....so I really didn't know what to do with the falafel balls once I had them fried out according to the packet instructions. What a pickle!!!

"And then I had an Idea!!!"......I really did! Here's how:

Ingredients:

1. 12 meduim sized falafel balls, cut into quarters.
2. 2 medium sized tomatoes, chopped.
3. 1 400 gm. can of chickpeas/five bean mix, rinsed.
4. 1/2 green bell pepper, very very finely chopped.
5. 1/2 red pepper, very very finely chopped.
6. 1/2 cup cucumber, finely chopped.
7. 1/4 cup coriander, finely chopped.
8. 2 tablespoons lemon juice.
9. salt and pepper to taste.

And now, mix ingredients 1-5 in a salad bowl.
Add salt and pepper to lemon juice, and give it a nice shake.
Drizzle this lemon juice onto the salad, and garnish with coriander.

My kids HATE onions, otherwise I'd have loved to add a little bit of finely chopped salad onion into the salad. Anways....go ahead and give it a shot. Besides, as you have already figured out, you can always give one of the ingredients a slip because you don't like it...or add one that you love :)

Quick Tip: I have always noted that little teeth find crunchy salads to be too much work, and I fond that this helps:
I give crunchy stuff like green/red/yellow peppers, carrot cubes, even baby corn kernels a go in the microwave.....this softens them a bit...without cooking them through!

And now....I WISH I HAD TAKEN A PHOTO OF THE SALAD :-((. Well....next time I will!!!! Or even better, if you try out this salad, do email me a picture, and we can put it up here