falafel salad with tzatziki dressing

not sure what the cutoff point is between cheap/healthy food and healthy food so I'm just gonna go for it. made this for lunch today and it was tasty so I thought I'd share.

Tzatziki dressing

• 1 cup greek style yogurt (sour cream would probably work as well)
• 1/2 cucumber, peeled and then shredded
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 tbsp dried dill weed
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp sour (I used vinegar, but I think lemon juice is traditional)
• oat milk to thin it down into a dressing consistency
• salt to taste

mix it all together & add however much oat milk you'd like to get it thinned down to be a salad dressing

Falafel

• 1 cup dried chickpeas, soaked for 12 hours, drained
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp garlic powder
• 2 tbsp flour
• 1 tsp cumin powder
• 1 tbsp baharat spice blend
• 2 tbsp oil
• a generous pinch of salt

preheat oven to 390 F. grind it all up in a food processor until the chickpeas and onion are chopped very fine, like large grains of sand. form into balls/patties/lumps (I used my hands, so they're sort of oval shaped), bake for 17 minutes.

plate with whatever your favorite greens are (I used romaine hearts), chopped tomatoes (for color), a few falafel, drizzle with the tzatziki sauce & sprinkle a pinch of dill over top.