What's Wrong with Jamie Oliver's SUPER QUICK FALAFELS?

In today's video, we are testing Jamie Oliver's Super Quick Falafels recipe. Does it deserve to be called falafel? #falafel #recipe #jamieoliver #food #cooking

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Cooking
03:20 Tasting

[ywalker-hbbh]

If you make half of a recipe, you need to make sure you cut ALL of the ingredients in half.

[marym]

You did not follow Jamie Oliver's recipe. You changed most of it.

[feriak]

Falafel is mainly about the crispness of the outside and the fluffiness of the inside and this is hard to achieve using canned chickpeas, and I think you should’ve added half a tablespoon of flour caused you halved the amount of chickpeas but I’m sure even Jamie’s recipe isn’t great for falafel anyway, but thanks for the video

[a.clancy]

USING 1 CAN OF CHICKPEAS SERIOULY CHANGED THE RECIPE. PERHAPS HALF THE WHOLE RECIPE THEN DOING THE RECIPE TWICE DUE TO YOUR SMALL PROCESSOR BOWL.

[tanguyen]

I'm not middle Eastern so by no means an expert, but because Jamie used cooked canned chickpeas, blending them made it into a paste which affects the mouth feel. "traditional felafels" use soaked dried beans which are uncooked, so when you blend that you get that crumbly texture vs the homogenised paste you get from canned beans. But then again, soaking beans takes 8hrs and Jamie wanted to show a quick method that gets you most of the way there. No one did anything wrong though!

[CorinneClassic]

You changed the whole recipe. First you omitted the lemon zest completely. Then you reduced the chick peas to 1 can, but then kept the same original amount of 1 Tablespoon of flour instead of half, then you substituted the harissa which is a paste with humidity and substituted it with a dry spice, then you changed the flavour by tripling the amount by adding a 1 Tablespoon of falafel spice blend when his original allspice should have been 1 teaspoon so you should have put in 1/2 of a teaspoon but you put in a whole Tablespoon. He fried his with olive oil, you cooked yours with either vegetable or canola oil again different taste, you also changed the thickness. You changed absolutely EVERYTHING. To say this was his recipe is a joke. But good job on trying your own version, I had fun watching you.

Even with that said, any middle eastern person would tell you this is Jamie Oliver Style, not original. Every region has their own adaptation. The originals were made with Fava beans not chick peas, then some areas did a 50/50 mix of fava and chick peas, now they use 100% chick peas. Some use a combination of parsley-coriander and mint, others stick to the cumin-turmeric-ground coriander and cayenne spice mix.

Good job editing!