thegur90: That….is actally really cool! Was completely skeptic going in but ill probably make it in the future 🙂
PoppySeedK: That beginning step where they put everything in the food processor– my mind just kept going “yes!” “Yes!” “YES!” with each further ingredient they added. These look really good.
Question, because the title specifies “baked”: how do you normally cook falafel? Is it frying? Could you do that with these if you froze them first?
sPIERCEn: Also great for when you want spaghetti and beetballs.
pumpyourbrakeskid: ### Ingredients
* 200 g raw beetroot (roughly chopped)
* 1 400g tinned chickpeas (drained, rinsed and dried)
* 1/2 brown onion (roughly chopped)
* 4 garlic cloves (roughly chopped)
* large handful of parsley
* 1/4 cup walnuts
* 80 g breadcrumbs
* zest of half a lemon
* 2 tsp ground cumin
* large pinch of salt & pepper
* 2 tsp olive oil
* To serve
* 5 wholemeal pittas
* hummus
* mixed leaves
* cucumber (sliced)
* tomato (sliced)
* red onion (sliced)
* chilli sauce
* garlic sauce
### Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C or 390°F and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.
2. Transfer all the falafel ingredients to a food processor. Then pulse the ingredients a few times until they have broken down but the mixture is still quite rough.
3. Take a small handful of the falafel mixture and compress it into a ball roughly the size of a golf ball, then transfer to the baking tray. Repeat this step until all of the falafel mixture has been used up and pressed into balls. You should be left with 15 or so falafel balls.
4. Place the tray with the falafel balls in the preheated oven for 25 minutes.
5. Meanwhile heat the pittas in the oven for a few minutes or in the toaster. Then slice open the pitta breads on one side and fill with a spread of hummus, a few pieces of mixed leaves and slices of cucumber, tomato and red onion.
6. Remove the falafels from the oven and and place 3 in each pitta.
7. Serve with a drizzle of chilli sauce and garlic sauce.
[**RECIPE SOURCE**](http://www.wearesovegan.com/baked-beetroot-falafel/)
**Original video by So Vegan**
critfist: Beetroots, or “how to make your kitchen look like a murder scene with one easy ingredient!”
thethaw356: Looks good.
grennhald: Could you use something other than beets as well as substituting the chickpeas? I can’t have chickpeas, beans, or lentils and I’m really missing falafel 🙁
alex_at_panc: This looks like a fantastic falafel.
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samdah2: What was wrong with just using chickpeas?
