Results: Falafel

Falafel is a deep-fried ball or patty-shaped fritter of Arab origin, featuring in Middle Eastern cuisine made from broad beans, ground chickpeas, or both. Here's a short video clip showing you how to make this delectable vegetarian dish. Have you ever heard of Falafel?

Falafel is often served in a pita, samoon, or wrapped in a flatbread known as taboon. The falafel balls may be topped with salads, pickled vegetables, and hot sauce, and drizzled with tahini-based sauces. Are you interested in eating Falafel either with salad or wrap, pita, bread,... of your choice?

Falafel is one of my favorite vegetarian dishes and it's occasionally included in our vegetarian meals. Instead of frying, Falafel can be baked but the result is NOT the same as exactly how it should be made by frying. Also, I don't eat fried foods all the time, I'm not going to deprive myself of good eating nor am I getting any healthier by stop eating fried foods. How do you like Falafel to be cooked?

The Palestinian chickpea only version of the Falafel has also been adopted into Israeli cuisine where it now features prominently and is proclaimed as the country's national dish, a situation which has been lamented by Palestinians, Lebanese, and other Arab groups alike as amounting to cultural appropriation. Based on this notion, do you agree that for something as simple as food, Palestine and Israel still do not get along?