Falafel Plant’s twist on a classic Scotch egg is a unique culinary creation

Here’s an invented dish you probably never imagined you needed to try: Falafel Plant’s Fabergé falafel, a hard-boiled egg wrapped inside an actual falafel, ready to be dipped in hummus, drizzled with tahini or tossed into a plain salad for some Middle Eastern flavor.

The treat riffs not only on the iconic Fabergé egg—the ornate, jewel-studded Easter eggs created for Russian tsars between 1885 and 1917—but also on the classic British Scotch egg, traditionally a hard-boiled egg encased in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried. Both inspirations are echoed in the “surprise” center here, with the hard-boiled (or soft-boiled, if you prefer) egg tucked within the falafel shell. At the very least, the dish is intriguing enough to warrant a look… and definitely a taste.

Given how delicious Falafel Plant’s more “traditional” offerings are, we can only imagine the care owner Karen Mashiach poured into this latest modern creation—arriving less than a year after the eatery debuted its chocolate falafel donut, still making the rounds on social media.

Sure, you’ll have to head underground to find Falafel Plant inside the subway-station market beneath Columbus Circle but, clearly, the food down there is worth the trek.