FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
FALAFEL, FELAFEL
Grimes, William. 2004. Eating Your Worlds. Oxford University Press.
is a Middle Eastern dish of spiced mashed chickpeas or other legumes formed into balls or fritters and deep-fried, usually eaten with or in pita bread.
- ORIGIN from colloquial Egyptian Arabic falafil, plural of Arabic fulful, fifil 'pepper'.
