What to Serve With Falafel

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Delicious Middle Eastern side dishes, sauces and perfect falafel pita toppings.

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1. Tahini Falafel Sauce

This lemon tahini sauce is the perfect dipping sauce for falafel balls. Or drizzle the creamy sauce over falafel patties stuffed into a warm pita sandwich.

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2. Chopped salad

Arabic chopped salad is a great side dish for fresh falafel. Or stuff it into pita pockets with crispy falafel and tahini sauce.

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3. Hummus

Hummus is a traditional accompaniment to falafel. Street vendors serve falafel plates of crispy falafel on hummus, drizzled with tahini sauce.

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4. Pita bread

Stuff pita pockets with chopped salad. Add a few cooked falafel patties and drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice for a quick and easy falafel pita sandwich.

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5. Hot Sauce

A homemade spicy Middle Eastern sauce like shatta sauce or zhoug (spicy cilantro sauce) is the perfect hot sauce for falafel.

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6. Onions

Sprinkle falafel with diced red onion, roughly chopped green onion, quick-pickled onion, or sumac onion (marinated red onions).

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7. Yoghurt

Serve falafel with Greek yoghurt or labneh. Or make the Persian yoghurt and cucumber dip called mast-o khiar.

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8. Muhammara

Muhammara is a spicy red pepper dip with walnuts, olive oil, breadcrumbs and more Middle Eastern flavours.

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Find all of these recipes and more sides for falafel at non-guilty pleasures. Serve it with our authentic crispy falafel or healthy baked falafel.