Lee Holmes' Sunflower Seed Falafel Balls with Tahini Dipping Sauce

Sunflower Seed Falafel Balls with Tahini Dipping Sauce

Sunflower Seed Falafel Balls with Tahini Dipping Sauce

By: Lee Holmes

With an array of healthy ingredients in every bite, these sunflower seed and cashew-based falafel balls will be a new family favourite!


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Recipe


Ingredients

  • Tahini dipping sauce
  • 3 tbsp tahini
  • 6 drops stevia liquid
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • Pinch Celtic sea salt
  • ½ cup sunflower seeds
  • ½ cup cashews
  • 1 tbsp organic nut butter, softened
  • 2 tbsp chopped basil leaves
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tsp chopped coriander leaves
  • 2 tbsp chopped red capsicum
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • ¼ shallot, chopped
  • Pinch Celtic sea salt
  • ¼ cup toasted sesame seeds, for coating
  • Lettuce leaf, to serve

Method


  • Preheat oven to 220°C and line baking tray with baking paper.
  • To make tahini dipping sauce, place all ingredients in food processor with 2 tablespoons of filtered water and blend until smooth and creamy.
  • Place all falafel ingredients, except sesame seeds and lettuce, in a food processor and pulse until thoroughly blended.
  • Use an ice-cream scoop to form round balls. Roll in sesame seeds, transfer to baking tray and bake for 20 mins, or until crispy.
  • Serve in lettuce leaf and dress with tahini dipping sauce.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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