"ViLco" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
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>>> they just never appeal to me. It's like an Indian Hush Puppy. But I
>>> can at least make hush puppies taste good. But not falafel.
>
>> I have seen the mixes but they just don't set well with me. I have
>> tried mixes for other things and didn't like them. One was for
>> tabouli. The end result just wasn't right.
>
> A moroccan friend used to make falafel from canned chickpeas and she sais
> that she added a little flour (A-P) to keep them from falling apart. I
> wasn't interested in food at the time so I don't know the other
> ingredients, but it could be a starting point. Probably, that pinch of
> flour in falafel is like the pinch of flour in gnocchi: a shortcut, kind
> of a trick for when you don't have old enough taters. But if it helps...

Maybe but these had a just awful flavor to them. Like too much of some kind
of seasoning was put in them. I just don't know what it was.