falafel
IPA: fʌɫˈɑfʌɫ
noun
- (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.
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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).
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