Further, the starchiness of soaked raw chickpeas allows them to blend evenly with their fellow falafel ingredients in a food processor, eliminating the need for a binding ingredient like flour.

Medha Imam: This is not falafel ... in ancient Egyptian tombs. After the dish spread throughout the Middle East, historians say, some countries replaced the fava beans with chickpeas and called ...

Add the chickpea flour and mix everything together – it ... Use half of it as a dipping sauce for the falafel. If making the coleslaw, stir the other half of the bean sauce through the coleslaw ...

though Egyptian falafel often uses fava beans instead of chickpeas. Falafel has long been a common street food in Israel, ...

In 2010, he rolled out The Chubby Chickpea, one of the first food trucks in the city, serving up Israeli-style street food from falafel and ... battered with chickpea flour and served with a ...