
Home made baked Falafels
Baked falafels is easy and healthy middle eastern snack. Crispy and extremely flavorful.
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There are so many memories associated with this season. Winter for me brings back my favorite memories, especially food related. There is so much abundance in nature’s beauty and bounty in the last few weeks of the year..
I remember accompanying Mom to buy seasonal vegetables. Gosh! there were so many winter special veggies – Carrots, corn, pumpkins and peas. Mom usually stocked up on peas whenever the price dwindled down.
And when that happened, the family unitedly cleaned and sorted the peas. These were then safely tucked in the fridge for later use.
Peas also referred to as Matar, would then be incorporated in all food items- breakfast, sabzi, rice, snacks for next couple of few weeks.
One of my favorite dish is Matar Karanji. Usually on lazy sunday afternoons, Mom made deep fried Matar Karanji (small hand pies).
I would insist her to make it in the morning and I munched on it all day. Eventually, I started avoiding the deep fried version. Desk job got the better of me (and my weight).
Fast forward to a decade later, I met my husband who is Matar Karanji lover. The very first thing he made me do after we got married was make Matar Karanji. I remember making almost a kilo of Karanjis for his office potluck. Thus, the Matar Karanji fever gripped me again.
I make Matar Karanji specially for him. After moving to US, we make Matar Karanji during this time of the year. Hot baked Karanji with bubbling hot tea has been our weekend ritual in this snowy season.
I have slowly moved our favorite deep fried snack into baked version. But I assure you, the taste remains absolutely same, even though its baked.
It’s flaky, crisp, spicy and flavorful.
To make the flaky pastry covering..
For the stuffing:
Assembling:
You can buy Pie crust dough in the frozen section or ready to make Pie crust mix. It’s quick and outcome is delicious..
If using the frozen Pie crust sheets-
If using Pie crust mix,
Make sure you are buying the instant version.
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I am Jui. If you love tea, vegetarian food and lots of giggles, we probably work on the same wavelength. I mostly re-create long lost Maharashtrian traditional recipes and also develop recipes that are vegan and vegetarian.
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