Falafel With Tahini Sauce

Ingredients

• Falafel
• 1 teaspoon cumin seed
• 1⁄2 teaspoon coriander seed
• 1⁄4 teaspoon fenugreek seeds (optional, but better with it)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon red chili pepper flakes
• 2 cups cooked chickpeas (I cook mine in the pressure cooker, but canned would be fine)
• 1⁄2 cup chopped white onion
• 3 medium garlic cloves
• 2 tablespoons white sesame seeds
• 1⁄4 cup matzo meal
• 1⁄4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons salt (use less if the chickpeas are salted)
• fresh ground black pepper
• 1 quart oil (for frying, we use a mix of canola and peanut oils)
• Tahini Sauce
• 1⁄4 cup tahini (sesame seed paste)
• 1 garlic clove
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cumin seed, toasted and ground
• 1⁄4 teaspoon fennel seed, toasted and ground
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• juice of half a small lemon (prefrably Meyer)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon red chili powder (we prefer ancho) or 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne (we prefer ancho)
• 2 -4 tablespoons water

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