Today’s blog post is dedicated to our love of falafel, and hummus, in particular from Salam Restuarant near our Albany Park Chicago home. Here are 145 yelp reviewers giving stellar reviews on Salam’s yelp page.
So why is falafel bright green on the inside? It’s because of all the parsley that it is green. The batter is made up of parsley, chick pea, green onion, and secret spices. 🙂 Here we see them using what looks like a small ice cream scoop to create a formed scoop of the batter before it is dropped into a deep fryer basket and fried in vegetable oil.
I chose a small order of hummus with pita to go with our falafel. Boy was it amazing. According to their yelp page, WGN proclaimed Salam to have the best hummus in Chicago, last October 2010. Lorenzo couldn’t agree more. He says it’s the best f*#@^ing hummus he’s ever had. Can I write ‘fucking’ in my own blog? Anyway, if you have never eaten this food you need to. Really. 🙂