So I will totally admit that I am frequently guilty of just skimming a recipe and usually that works to my advantage. Tonight it didn't. I used the Bobby Flay Throwdown falafel recipe which I thought I had used to make the falafel for Reesa and Julie's shower (and I may have I just probably read the recipe closer that time.) I got all the ingrediants, mixed them all together in the food procesor, formed three little ball while i heated the oil and threw them in. With in a matter of seconds they totally disingrated. So i thought okay my oil must not have been hot enough i waited a few minute and tried again. At this point i had two crying children waiting for dinner so i had to give up and make them something else. I then went back and checked the recipe again. This time i noticed there was 23 comments about this recipe. hmmm maybe i should have read those first. They were almost all about the disingrating falafel and they had almost all made the same mistake it had! The recipe called for dried chickpeas soaked overnight, but i was like why wait for them to soak overnight when i can just open a can. Well the answer is if you use canned chickpeas they are too wet and fall apart in the oil. So after this discovery i was actually able to save the falafels by adding several teaspoons of flour and dredging the balls in flour before frying. They falafel were actually very good although a little creamier on the inside then i would like. The moral of this story should be read the recipe more carefully... I will let you know if that actually works out.
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