📋Air Fryer Falafels (from mix) recipe

air fryer falafel pita on a black plate with a bowl of falafel balls in the background

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📋Air Fryer Falafels (from mix) recipe

If you love falafels, you will love this Air Fryer Falafel (from mix)! It's not only quick and easy to make, it's healthier and creates less mess. Making falafels in the air fryer from a mix is a game changer!

Course dinner, lunch

Cuisine Middle Eastern

Keyword air fryer, box mix, Falafel

Special Diet Dairy-free, Vegan, Vegetarian

Allergen dairy-free

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Total Time 25

Servings servings

Calories 191kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

falafel balls

10 oz box of falafel mix
water

falafel sandwich

3 -8 inch pita bread (sliced in half)

Optional fillings

3 tomatoes
2 cups lettuce
⅓ cup celery
⅓ cup pickles
¼ cup red onion
½ cup cucumber
1 cup tahini sauce

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Combine water and falafel mix together as per package directions and let stand (as per package directions - usually about 10 minutes)
Meanwhile, spray the inside of your air fryer basket or drawers with a couple pumps of cooking oil spray.
Form into approximately 1 inch - 1.5 inch balls - you'll get 18 -20 depending on how big you make them.
Place falafel balls in single layer in basket or drawers.
*Try to keep them spaced apart, but it's okay if they touch
Spray with another 2-3 pumps of oil spray.
Air-fry on 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 10 minutes. You can shake or turn at halfway point (5 minutes) and spray a couple more pumps of oil, but you don't have to if you have a Ninja Foodi (I didn't).
*The falafel balls will look a little cracked, but this is fine.

Falafel Pita Wrap

Add your desired fillings into warm pita bread (½ an 8 inch pita pocket) and add 2-3 falafel balls.
Drizzle with tahini sauce, tzatziki sauce or hummus(See NOTES for Tahini sauce recipe)

Notes

SAUCE FOR FALAFELS RECIPE: Quick & Easy Tahini Sauce

*You generally cannot buy "tahini sauce" unless it's from a deli. You buy tahini (which is ground-up sesame seeds), then you need to make the sauce by adding lemon, garlic and water. Just be sure to check the ingredients if it says "tahini sauce".

*Nutrition information (calculation) and WW points does NOT include sauce

EXPERT TIPS:

- You will need an air fryer. I have a Ninja Foodi, which I love, but if you don't, not to worry, you can make these in a variety of air fryer brands. If you don't have an air fryer, but are in the market for one but not sure what type to get, check out my article on What to Look for in an Air Fryer.

- Use silicon tongs. I also recommend using silicon tongs so you don't damage the finish on the inside of your air fryer.

- Spray your falafel balls (and anything you put in the air fryer) with a light spray cooking oil, but do NOT use an aerosol cooking spray with propellants (like Pam). This can cause damage to the surface of your air fryer and cause the coating to flake off and potentially onto your food. *The label will tell you whether it has propellants or not.

STORAGE:

Store leftover falafel in an airtight container in the fridge. The wet ingredients (lettuce, tomato, onion, etc.) should be stored separately from the falafel balls in the fridge for 3-4 days. The pita bread can be stored at room temperature to the expiry date on the package.

These falafel balls can be frozen (once cooled) in an airtight container for up to 3 months. The pita bread can also be frozen.

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