Definitions for "Falafel"
Keywords:  chickpea, pita, tahini, pea, croquette
A Middle Eastern specialty consisting of small, deep-fried croquettes or balls made of highly spiced, ground chickpeas. They are generally tucked inside pita bread, sandwich style, but can also be served as appetizers. A yogurt or tahini-based sauce is often served with falafel.
the vegetarian alternative to a shawarma. falafel itself consists of crushed chickpeas, rolled into balls and deep-fried. these individual falafels are flattened on pita bread, and garnished with lettuce, tomato, parsley and pickled turnips, and rolled into a cylindrical sandwich, just like a shawarma.
Middle Eastern balls of spiced ground chickpeas which are deep-fried and served in pita bread with a yogurt- or tahini-based sauce.
Falafel (Arabic: فلافل) is a 2006 Lebanese film by the director Michel Kammoun. Its world premiere took place during the opening of the Beirut Film Festival on september 16 2006.