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Detox Recipe: Beetroot Falafel

By Lucy Brooks on 24/4/2018

The Detox Kitchen Bible Recipe: delicious and healthy vegetarian recipe for homemade falafel

Healthy detox recipe: beetroot falafel
Healthy detox recipe: beetroot falafel
Beetroot falafel

SERVES 4 • 385 calories per serving


This recipe is the result of a heroic number of falafel trials. The main reason falafels go wrong is taking a short cut and using tinned chickpeas. This always results in wet, mushy, sad-looking falafels. But if you start with dried chickpeas, you will end up with wonderfully crisp, round, textured falafels. We’ve added beetroot to these for its bright red colour. Beetroot is a rich source of folate, which is used in the production of red blood cells and helps ward off anaemia.


200g dried chickpeas


2 raw beetroots, peeled and finely diced


1 carrot, finely diced


50g cashew nuts


30g home-shelled pistachio nuts


1 tsp olive oil


½ red onion, finely diced


2 garlic cloves, finely chopped


1 egg, lightly beaten with a fork


Grated zest of 1 lemon


2 tsp ground cumin


1 tsp smoked paprika


1 tbsp sesame seeds



For the yogurt dip


3 tbsp plain soya yogurt


Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon


1 tsp tahini


1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and finely sliced


A pinch of ground cumin


A pinch of salt


To serve


Iceberg lettuce, separated into leaves


Fresh mint leaves


1. Soak the chickpeas in cold water overnight. The next day, drain and place them in a fresh pan of cold water. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 50 minutes until soft. Drain and pat dry with kitchen paper.


2. Preheat your oven to 180°C/fan 160°C/gas 4. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper.


3. Place the chickpeas, beetroot, carrot, cashew nuts and pistachios in a blender and pulse until finely chopped. Transfer to a large mixing bowl. Set aside.


4. Heat the olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and cook the onion and garlic until soft. Add them to the bowl along with the rest of the ingredients (except the sesame seeds). Mix together well.


5. Shape the mixture into small balls and roll them in the sesame seeds to coat. Place the balls on the baking tray and bake in the heated oven for 50 minutes.


6. Meanwhile, make the dip by mixing together all the ingredients for it.


7. Serve the falafels with the dip, lettuce leaves and mint. To eat, place three mint leaves on a lettuce leaf, set a falafel on this, add a dollop of yogurt dip and wrap up.


Rich in Vitamins B1 (thiamin) and B6 • Folate • Potassium • Iron • Magnesium • Beta-carotene • Phytoestrogens • Beta-sitosterol • Nitrates


Extract taken from The Detox Kitchen Bible by Lily Simpson and Rob Hobson published by Bloomsbury, £25.00, Hardback
Photography © Keiko Oikawa

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