I am obsessed with falafel. Once, I was walking along the streets of an city in other State and I saw the word ‘falafel’ in the name of a takeaway store. My pupils dilated, I became sweaty, I pointed, screamed ‘FALAFEL’ and ran across the road… dodging incoming traffic.This just gave my boyfriend more confirmation that I’m nuts. Note that he is still with me. Mwahaha… I think he has just learnt to anticipate what random things excite me and cause me to just shout spontaneously.
Some weeks, my diet just consists of raw veggies and fruit, raw vegan desserts and falafel.Just joking… Or am I joking?
Nevertheless… I thought: there must be a way to enjoy falafel in a healthy way and without the tedious task of making individual falafel patties.
Pizza crust? Easy. There is no ‘ball’ making. It’s really just a ‘plop, spread and add heat’.
And it was bloody delicious.
Deep dish falafel pizza with beetroot hummus
Ingredients
Falafel Crust
- 3/4 cup cooked chickpeas
- 1/3 cup millet, oats or flour
- 1 small red onion
- 1 cup fresh mint
- 1 cup fresh coriander
- 2 cloves garlic
- 3 tbs tahini
- 3 tbs chia or flax seeds, finely ground
- 2 tbs cumin powder
- 2 tbs coriander powder
Beetroot hummus layer
- 1/2 cup cooked chickpeas
- 1 small beetroot, boiled
- 2 tbs tahini
- 1 cloves garlic
- Oregano, basil and other herbs as desired
1/2 cup sliced vegetables as desired
Tahini Cheese sauce
- 2 tbs tahini
- 2 tbs nutritional yeast as you desire!
- 2 tbs water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C. Line a cake tin or deep pie dish with baking paper.
- Base: In a food processor, whizz all crust ingredients until all ingredients are very combined and have become little pieces.
- Spread on the bottom and lower sides of cake tin/pie dish. Bake in oven for 15 minutes
- Beetroot hummus: In a food processor, whizz all ingredients until smooth.
- Remove the beetroot hummus, add the sliced vegetables to the hummus and mix
- Remove falafel crust from oven.
- Pour the beetroot hummus on top of the crust and return to the oven for around 40 minutes. The dish is ready it not leaking any more vegetable water.
- Cheese sauce: Mix all ingredients together and drizzle on top of pizza when it has finished baking!
Pongodhall
October 11, 2017 at 7:54 pmI’m not used to raw millet, and use other seeds/flours ground up. I am used to having cooked like quinoa put in things.
I just wanted to check that this millet is raw and ground please.
I am really keen to make this fabulous pizza, and really love your gorgeous recipes, I foresee a colourful winter ahead!
rainbownourishments@hotmail.com
October 12, 2017 at 11:15 amHi! Yes, when you put the raw millet in the food processor, it grinds up a little. Also, when you bake it with the other ingredients, it cooks! I agree, raw millet isn’t very nice but it definitely fluffs up and cooks in the oven. I hope this helps 🙂