Originally Posted by After Shock Media

bare with me, been a long time since cooking school.

15 ounce can of Garbanzo beans
1 med white onion chopped
handfull of parsley leaves, sort of chopped
2-3 cloves of garlic chopped up
about 3/4 tsp cumin though i like this so maybe 1/2 for most. Guessing though umm it comes out to like a small pile in the palm of my hand.
nearly a tsp dried oregano (never fresh)
Salt and pepper
1 cup dry plain bread crumbs divided into 1/2 cup portions
1/8th to 1/4th cup raisens
Juice from about a half of a lemon
1 large egg yolk
cooking spray like pam or whatever


Dump garbonzo beans onion parsley garlic cumin and oregano in food processor and let it go until smooth. Add some salt and pepper, toss in the lemon juice half the bread crumbs the raisens and the yolk and stir it up.
Wet your hands and make some patties each ball before pressed should be about the size of a golf ball guessing 1 to tablespoons ea. Flaten then out some of course about 3/4 inch thick or so like a burger sort of. You should get like around 14 or so of them. pat on the rest of the bread crumbs. (i toss on a lil more pepper before I add these).
Get out a large frying pan and spray that with the cooking spray. Pam or whatever you want. Heat it over medium until its hot. Add a few patties to the pan and do not crowd them and let there be like 20 seconds before each addition so the pan does not get the heat sucked out of it. Cook them around 3 min or so until bottom looks golden and yummy. Taking pan off heat spray a lil more spray on top of them and flip em, return to heat about another 3 min or so.

I used to do em with oil but that was to greasy so I switched to spray. Oil can be used just use olive oil and brush it on the pan and the falafal before flipping.

Also you may want to adjust seasonings some this is a personal preference from memory and have not made them in some time.