What in the heck is a Falafel??????!
Answers: I saw it at the state fair back in Aug and it never said what it was. I have head its a pastry, an icecream, a dirty deed, and that its an animal. What the heck is it really?
its a delicacy from the arab world. turkey/saudi arabia/ egypt.
it looks like little meatballs. but it has no meat in it. its basically a dough, made with bread and chickpeas. that is deepfried in oil. you put them in one of those flat bread thingies (pita). and eat them with salad, and sometimes garlic or sesamy sauce.
because they have no meat in them theyre popular amoung vegetarians. i like them myself aswell.
falaafil (help·info), Hebrew: ?????????; also known in Egypt and Sudan as ta'meya, Arabic ?????), is a fried ball or patty made from spiced fava beans and/or chickpeas. It is a popular form of fast food in the Middle East, where it is also served as a mezze (snack or tapas). The word "falafel" is the plural of the Arabic word ???? (filfil), meaning pepper.[1] Variant spellings in English include felafel and filafil.
Falafel is usually served as a sandwich wrapped in pita bread, and outside the Middle East, the term "falafel" commonly refers to this sandwich—falafel in a pita is typical street food or fast food. Along with the falafel balls, which may be crushed onto the bread or added whole, topping variations are usually included. Falafel balls may also be eaten alone as a snack or served as part of a mezze. During Ramadan they are sometimes eaten as part of an iftar, the meal which breaks the daily fast after sunset.
Falafel has been part of the diet of Mizrahi Jews for centuries and is a staple of the Israeli diet. It has become the national dish of Israel.[2]
Falafel is now seen as a uniting, pan-Middle-Eastern dish. In recent years, immigration from the Middle East to Western countries has brought with it a broader availability of Middle Eastern cuisine, and the falafel sandwich has become a popular and iconic food within alternative fast food or slow food movements, and indeed has spread worldwide.
They are also used as a vegan alternative filler to a D?ner kebab in many countries.
Ron
Forget long "copy and paste" answers.
Its a middle eastern food. can be put in sandwiches or eaten bye singles. It looks like little meatballs, but its usually all vegy
I've had it before and I liked it. :D
Dude man its a stuff you eat wrapped in bread.
I would just say that they are fried chickpeas in a ball with pita bread. A fast and easy definition!
Kahn is one of them smartasses. Its a pastry type thing.
It's a burger-type delicacy made of ground up chickpeas, herbs and spices. The balls are deepfried and eaten as snacks or stuffed into flat bread as a sandwich filling. Good with garlic yogurt, tomatoes, onions, chili sauce, cucumber, olives, tahini.