raw falafel, tahini & hummus

if anyone knows me at all, they know that one of my favorite foods, that i could eat anytime or anywhere, is falafel. today, instead of doing school work, which i dreadfully needed to catch up on due to working 5 days in a row, i made homemade raw falafel, tahini and hummus. here are the recipes:

falafel:
2 cups almonds
1/2 cup cilantro
1/4 cup parsley
4 Tablespoons lemon juice
2 Tablespoons raw tahini
1 Tablespoon olive oil
11/2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon sea salt
3/4 cup water

blend in a food processor, and make into small patties. i don't have a dehydrator, so i put the oven on 100 (raw is considered anything under 118 degrees) and then i leave the oven door open. watch until the patties start to get hard. if you do have a dehydrator, i'm not sure of how long you would put them in there for...

tahini
1/2 large cucumber (about 1 1/2 cups)
1/4 cup raw tahini
1/4 cup fresh dill
1/2 lemon, juiced (or if you are lazy like me, you buy lemon juice in a bottle, in which case, you can use 3 tablespoons)
1 tablespoon agave syrup
1/4 teaspoon sea salt

blend in the food processor.

hummus recipe
the only difference between the recipe from before and the one that i made today is that i added 2 tablespoons of pine nuts. totally worth the splurge of the pine nuts - which can be pretty expensive.

this meal was fabulous: the only splurge was a very high fiber wrap & a small sprinkle of feta cheese. i also added lettuce, tomato, cucumbers and onions to the inside. voila! one of my favorite meals of all time!

enjoy!