Falafel is fried Middle Eastern balls made of ground chickpeas. A falafel wrap, fry the falafel, falafel and hummus.
The chickpeas are soaked and ground raw, never cooked first, which is the one rule that decides whether they hold together or fall apart in the oil. Egypt makes them with broad beans instead. They are naturally vegan and were street food long before that mattered.
1nounfalafelFried balls made of ground chickpeas.
“We bought falafel wrapped in pitta bread with salad and tahini.”
falafel is a food.
Arabic falafil, of uncertain origin, possibly from a word meaning pepper.
Arabic
فَلَافِل
English, today
falafel
Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل. a doublet of peepul and pepper.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA