Sam's Falafel
A middle Eastern favourite for centuries, now enjoyed as a healthy, wholesome and delicious food around the world.
My falafel is a nutritious blend of chickpeas, herbs, spices and other traditional ingredients that adds a tasty vegetarian option to every ones diet.
My falafel is perfect choice for a side dish, main course or party food. An excellent source of manganese, iron, foliate and vitamin E.
More about Falafel
The falafel is a 100% vegetarian food. Its main components are: Chickpeas, fresh vegetables and Middle Eastern seasonings make Falafel a healthy vegetarian food. People concerned with healthy eating all over the world fell in love with this unique Vegetarian Delight. Falafel has long been a mainstay of many Middle Eastern cuisines, how long exactly will always be a guess, but it is fair to claim that this chickpea based, and highly addictive snack has been around in one form or another for at least a few millennia. Chickpeas, is one of humanity’s earliest cultivated crops. Today, many cultures incorporate these legumes into their trademark dishes. An excellent source of protein, fiber, iron and other nutrients.
Falafel is usually served as a sandwich wrapped in pita bread, and outside the Middle East, the term "falafel" commonly refers to this sandwich—falafel in a pita is typical street food or fast food. Along with the falafel balls, which may be crushed onto the bread or added whole, topping variations are usually included. Falafel balls may also be eaten alone as a snack or served as part of a mezze. They are also used as a vegan alternative filler to a Döner kebab in many countries.
Each ethnic group brought its own flavors to falafel-making. The original Egyptian dish was made with fava beans; as falafel moved northward, cooks substituted chickpeas. Until recently, Israel’s most notable contribution to its evolution has been to cram novel accompaniments, from shredded beets to French fries, into falafel sandwiches. Yemenites added cardamom, cumin, turmeric and hot peppers. Eastern Europeans, Persians, Ethiopians, Iraqis … all added their own taste.
Falafel has been part of the diet of Mizrahi Jews for centuries and is a staple of the Israeli diet. It has become the national dish of Israel.[2] " Israelis love to think that falafel is their own,"
Falafel is now seen as a uniting, pan-Middle-Eastern dish. In recent years, immigration from the Middle East to Western countries has brought with it a broader availability of Middle Eastern cuisine, and the falafel sandwich has become a popular and iconic food within alternative fast food or slow food movements, and indeed has spread worldwide.
A tasty treat from an ancient middle eastern recipe, with all vegetarian ingredients, which makes a delicious healthy snack or starter in a full menu. Falafel is an ancient snack known to have been popular in Jerusalem nearly 2000 years ago. This traditional food is a huge part of the Middle Eastern culture.
The chickpea was used as food by our hunter-gatherer ancestors tens of thousands of years ago and was cultivated around 7,000 years ago in the Middle East. This is pretty much pre-history, so details are not clear.
Source: www.wikipedia.org, www.everything2.com
