Green Pea and Mint Falafel with Cucumber Raita

To celebrate National Vegetarian Week we have a delicious snack recipe for green pea and mint falafel with cucumber raita. Oozing with flavour these falafel's are guaranteed to fill you up!

Ingredients:

500g cooked garden peas
1 tbsp tahini
2 tbsp flour
Half a lemon (for juice)
10g garlic pure
20g fresh parsley
20g fresh coriander
Salt and pepper (seasoning)
Half cucumber
20g sugar
100ml full fat yogurt

Garnish:

Handful of cooked garden peas
Red chilli
Half lemon

Method:

Pat the cooked garden peas dry with kitchen paper and tip into the food blender along with the garlic, parsley, coriander, tahini, lemon juice, flour and a little salt.

Blend until fairly smooth and then shape into balls with your hands.

For the raita, grate the cucumber and mix it through the yogurt with a touch of salt and sugar.

Heat the oil in a nonstick frying pan, add the balls, and then quickly fry for 3 minutes on each side until lightly golden.

Serve with some peas around the falafel, a few lemons slices and a couple of red chilies julienne sliced.

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