What is the best way to reheat felafel? My cousin has loved them ever since I brought a big plate of them to Christmas a few years back. This year he can't go to Grandma's for Christmas. His wife has a low-risk but very scary cancer surgery (ocular melanoma--not as likely to spread as other melanomas, but no one wants their eye cut on
)coming up the first week of January and he decided to stay home with her and her family, but he specifically mentioned missing my felafel.
I'm planning on making a big batch for his sister to take home to him. Microwave is easiest, but they get a weird texture. Oven might dry them out. Warming them up in a medium-hot skillet is probably best, but not the easiest.
Of course, he'll warm 'em up how he wants, but I can send them in a couple two-serving ready-to-microwave dished, or I can pack them in over-ready foil pans. Your thoughts?
Ftr, I don't do anything special, it's just the Ziyad brand mix deep-fried in my electric skillet.
Also, any side-dish suggestions that are readily amenable to reheating? Pita won't keep, my next thought is a rice dish, but to be worthy of sending along it's gotta be something more than just rice, and it's gotta be reheatable. Any other ideas? I have some middle eastern spices in my cupboard. Nothing with terribly expensive ingredients would work, of course.
