falafel

IPA: fʌɫˈɑfʌɫ

(uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
(countable) A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
(countable) A single falafel ball.

Examples of "falafel" in Sentences

Your falafel from the green lagoon could be the start of a whole new trend.
Gretchen, one of the best things about falafel is you can make up the mix way ahead of time.
Egyptian falafel is made using peeled and dried fava beans (not the yellow split pea Greeks call fava).
Foul could be bought for 1.5 piasters; tamaya in Israel it was called falafel sandwiches were just two piasters—roughly a nickel.
In Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, Claudia Roden says falafel is made with a mixture of chickpeas and fava beans, while Israelis and Palestinians prefer it made only with chickpeas.
The key to making tasty falafel is to use dried chickpeas (my first batch was made with cooked chickpeas; the texture was awful), soak the chickpeas at least 24 hours (I only soaked the chickpeas overnight for my second batch; everything about the falafel was wrong), and purée the soaked chickpeas until very smooth (in my third batch, the ground chickpeas were the size of dried couscous; these fell apart in the hot oil).