Falafel and vegetable curry

If you're into Indian food then you will enjoy this quick simple curry dish. Its loaded with vegetables and goes great with my falafel recipe. Took me a while to figure out how to perfect my falafel but I think I finally got it down! You will need a food processor or a high speed blender for the falafel.

Ingredients:

(falafel)

4 cans of chickpeas or you can soak and cook them yourself

1 cup of fresh parsley

1 lemon

1 cup of flour

salt and pepper

garlic

cumin

2 flax eggs

(vegetable curry)

Brocoli

carrots

peas

1 red pepper

1 green pepper

mushroom

1 yellow onion

1 can of diced tomatoes

coconut milk

dairy free plain yogurt

curry seasoning

turmeric

garlic

salt and pepper

thai chili seasoning

 pictured above is before baking

after baking

Directions for falafel:

1. Rinse chickpeas and place in food processor

2. Roughly chop parsley and add that in food processor as well and blend until there are still some chunks but its mostly smooth

3. Place mixture into a large mixing bowl

4. Add flour, juice of lemon, seasonings, and flax eggs and mix thoroughly

5. Preheat oven to 375

6. Line a baking sheet with foil

7. Use your hands to roll the mixture up into the shape of little balls and place on baking sheet

8. Bake for 40 minutes flipping balls around half way through

9. Allow to cool so they firm up and then serve.

Directions for curry:

1. Dice all of the vegetables and place them into a large pot with about 2 cups of water and allow the veggies to steam for about 15 minutes

2. Add salt and pepper to the veggies

3. Add can of diced tomatoes and continue cooking for about 5 minutes

4. Once all of the veggies are steamed to your liking add about 1 cup of coconut milk depending on how creamy you like your curry

5. Add the rest of the seasonings to your liking and allow curry to cook on medium high for about 10 to 15 minutes

6. Turn down heat and let it cool down for about 10 minutes

7. Add about 2 tbsp. of yogurt to curry and mix through. If you want it creamier add more

8. Serve over rice of your choice!

Add a couple scoops of hummus or some naan breed and you have the perfect meal! You can always switch up the veggies adding in more or removing the ones you don't like. Sometimes I even add potatoes, chickpeas, or tofu to the curry if I want a heavier meal. Also feel free to skip the yogurt if that's not your thing, its really up to you! Like most of my meals this dish has no added oils and is low in fat so dig in!