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Ingredient

Falafel

Falafel is made with broad beans or chickpeas, sometimes with parsley, scallion, garlic, cumin seed, sesame seed, sumac, or onion. It can be baked, deep-fried, or used as a stuffing.

Falafel, cooked

Photo: Miansari66 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use falafel

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Deep fry
  • Stuff

Made from

Preparing it

For fava bean falafel, soak the dried beans and grind them with the seasonings. Sesame seeds can be sprinkled on the falafel before frying.

Cooking with it

Do not precook chickpeas: the falafel can fall apart unless a binder such as flour is added.

Nutrition

What 100 g of falafel holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 21%Fat 28%Carbohydrate 51%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of falafel
Energy333 kcal · 1,393 kJ
Protein13 g
Fat18 g
of which saturated2.4 g
Carbohydrate32 g
Sodium294 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of falafel: minerals and vitamins
Potassium585 mg
Calcium54 mg
Iron3.4 mg
Magnesium82 mg
Zinc1.5 mg
Vitamin C1.6 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)1 µg
Folate93 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 172455), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where falafel is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses falafel. Here is where they come from.

Origins

  1. 1933 · Lebanon

    A falafel shop had opened in Beirut by 1933.

  2. The 1970s · Germany

    Turkish stalls and restaurants introduced falafel to German customers in the early 1970s.

  3. The 1990s · Northern America

    By the 1990s, falafel had begun reaching a wider North American public.

On the table

Dishes made with falafel

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Falafel burger

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include falafel.

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What falafel is called

Names in 79 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    faláfel · falafel

  • French

    falafel

  • Italian

    falafel · felafel

  • Portuguese

    falafel · felafel

  • German

    Falafel

  • Dutch

    falafel

  • Greek

    φαλάφελ · φελάφελ · ρεβυθοκεφτέδες

  • Turkish

    felafel

  • Russian

    фалафель

  • Polish

    falafel

  • Arabic

    فلافل · الطعمية · الفلافل · طعمية

  • Persian

    فلافل

Show all 79 languages

  • Afrikaans

    falafel

  • Armenian

    ֆալաֆել

  • Azerbaijani

    falafel

  • Bangla

    ফালাফেল

  • Basque

    falafel

  • Belarusian

    фалафель

  • Bosnian

    falafel

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    falafel

  • Breton

    falafel

  • Bulgarian

    фалафел

  • Cantonese

    三角豆餅

  • Catalan

    falàfel · falafel

  • Cebuano

    palapel · falāfil · falafel · ta'amiya

  • Chinese

    油炸鷹嘴豆餅 · 法拉費 · 炸豆丸子

  • Croatian

    falafel

  • Czech

    falafel

  • Danish

    falafel

  • dga

    Falafel

  • Egyptian Arabic

    طعميه

  • Esperanto

    kikerbulo · falafelo · falafel · falaflo

  • Estonian

    falafel

  • Finnish

    falafel

  • Galician

    faláfel

  • Georgian

    ფალაფელი

  • Hausa

    Falafel

  • Hebrew

    פלאפל · פלאפל מחשי

  • Hindi

    फ़लाफ़ल

  • Hungarian

    falafel

  • hyw

    ֆալաֆել

  • Ido

    Falaflo

  • Indonesian

    falafel · falāfil

  • Irish

    falafel

  • Japanese

    ファラフェル

  • Javanese

    falafèl · falafel

  • Kannada

    ಫ಼ಲಾಫ಼ಲ್

  • Kazakh

    фалафель

  • Korean

    팔라펠 · 팔라필 · 타아메야

  • Kyrgyz

    фалафель

  • Latin

    falafel

  • Latvian

    felāfels · falafels

  • Lithuanian

    falafeliai · falafelis

  • Macedonian

    фалафел

  • Malay

    falafel

  • Malayalam

    ഫലാഫൽ

  • Marathi

    फलाफल · फेलॅफिल · फेलाफिल

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    falafel

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    falafel

  • Pampanga

    Falafel

  • Punjabi

    ਫ਼ਲਾਫ਼ਲ

  • Romanian

    Falafel

  • Scots

    falafel

  • Serbian

    фалафел · ta'miyya

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    фалафел

  • Serbian (Latin)

    falafel

  • Simplified Chinese

    炸豆丸子

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    炸豆丸子

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    炸豆丸子

  • Slovak

    falafel

  • Slovenian

    falafel

  • Swahili

    Falafel

  • Swedish

    falafel · falaffel

  • Tamil

    ஃபிளாபல்

  • Telugu

    ఫలాఫెల్

  • Thai

    ฟาลาเฟล · ฟะลาฟิล

  • Traditional Chinese

    中東蔬菜球

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    油炸鷹嘴豆餅

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    中東蔬菜球

  • Ukrainian

    фалафель

  • Urdu

    فلافل

  • Uzbek

    Falafel

  • Vietnamese

    falafel

  • Võro

    Falafel

  • Welsh

    ffelaffel · felafel

  • Western Panjabi

    فلافل

  • Wu Chinese

    炸豆丸子

  • Yiddish

    פאלאפעל · פאלאפאל · פאלאפל

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q188788

Photos

Photo: Miansari66 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons