Falafel: Perbedaan antara revisi

Asal muasal falafel tidak diketahui dan kontroversial.<ref name="Slow food">{{cite book|last=Petrini|first=Carlo|title=Slow food : collected thoughts on taste, tradition, and the honest pleasures of food|year=2001|publisher=Chelsea Green Publishing|isbn=978-1-931498-01-2|page=55|accessdate=6 Februari 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KVf94-rwpJ8C&lpg=PP1&dq=Slow%20food:%20collected%20thoughts%20on%20taste,%20tradition,%20and%20the%20honest%20pleasures%20...%20By%20Carlo%20Petrini,%20Benjamin%20Watson&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false|author2=Watson, Benjamin}}</ref> Sebuah teori umum menyatakan bahwa hidangan tersebut berasal dari [[Mesir]],<ref name=ynet>{{cite news|last=Galili|first=Shooky|title=Falafel fact sheet|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3421119,00.html|accessdate=6 Februari 2011|publisher=Ynet News|date=4 Juli 2007}}</ref> diyakini disantap oleh [[Koptik]] sebagai pengganti daging saat [[Prapaskah]].<ref name=Raviv>{{cite journal|last=Raviv|first=Yael|title=Falafel: A National Icon|journal=Gastronomica|date=1 Agustus 2003|volume=3|issue=3|pages=20–25|doi=10.1525/gfc.2003.3.3.20|jstor=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Denker|first=Joel|title=The World on a Plate: A Tour Through the History of America's Ethnic Cuisine|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|year=2003|page=41|url=https://books.google.com/?id=S_x6nrkcoUkC&pg=PA41&dq=falafel&cd=36#v=onepage&q=falafel|isbn=0-8133-4003-9}}</ref> Karena [[Iskandariyah]] adalah kota pelabuhan, hal tersebut memungkinkan hidangan tersebut dan namanya diekspor ke kawasan lainnya di Timur Tengah.<ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=Aliza|title=Beans|url=https://archive.org/details/beansmorethan20000gree|year=2004|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-1931-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/beansmorethan20000gree/page/76 76]}}</ref> Hidangan tersebut kemudian bermigrasi dari kawasan utara ke [[Levant]], dimana kacang arab diganti kacang fava.<ref name="Kantor">{{cite web|title=A History of the Mideast in the Humble Chickpea|date=10 Juli 2002|author=Kantor, Jodi|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DF1430F933A25754C0A9649C8B63|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=23 Maret 2008}}</ref><ref name="MacLeod">{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/world/lebanon-turns-up-the-heat-as-falafels-fly-in-food-fight-20081011-4yqo.html|title= Lebanon turns up the heat as falafels fly in food fight|last=MacLeod|first=Hugh|date=12 Oktober 2008|work=The Age|accessdate=10 Februari 2010}}</ref> Hal tersebut menspekulasikan bahwa sejarahnya bermula pada zaman [[Firaun Mesir]].<ref name="Egyptian food and drink">{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Hilary|title=Egyptian food and drink|year=1988|publisher=Shire|isbn=978-0-85263-972-6|page=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0f1IY2M6G8C&lpg=PA25&dq=fava%20beans%20egypt%20national%20food&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>

Falafel dibuat dari [[Vicia faba|kacang fava]] atau [[kacang arab]], atau kombinasi keduanya. Penggunaan kacang arab umum di sebagian besar negara Timur Tengah.<ref name="Evening Standard 2002-2-05-02">{{cite news|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-1256574-falling-for-fine-falafel.do|title=Falling for fine falafel|last=Campion|first=Charles|date=9 Mei 2002|work=[[Evening Standard]]|accessdate=10 Februari 2010|archive-date=2013-05-05|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505124656/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/article-1256574-falling-for-fine-falafel.do|dead-url=yes}}</ref> Hidangan tersebut biasanya dibuat dengan kacang arab di [[Suriah]], [[Lebanon]], [[Yordania]], [[Israel]] dan [[Negara Palestina|Palestina]].<ref name=Roden>{{cite book|last=Roden|first=Claudia|title=The New Book of Middle Eastern Food|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780375405068|year=2000|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-375-40506-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780375405068/page/62 62]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Malouf|first=Greg|title=Artichoke to Za'atar: Modern Middle Eastern Food|year=2008|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25413-8|page=90|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0j5c0GMrOdcC&pg=PA90&dq=egyptian+falafel+spicy#v=onepage&q=egyptian%20falafel%20spicy&f=false|author2=Malouf, Lucy|accessdate=6 Februari 2011}}</ref><ref name=Aytop106>{{cite book|title=The glutton's glossary: a dictionary of food and drink terms|first=John|last=Ayto|publisher=Routledge|year=1990|accessdate=6 Februari 2011|isbn=0-415-02647-4|url=https://books.google.com/?id=vAQOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA106&dq=syria+falafel+chickpeas}}</ref> Versi ini sangat populer di wilayah Barat.<ref name="Roden"/> Varietas Mesir-nya saty-satunya yang menggunakan kacang fava.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dimbleby|first1=Henry|last2=Baxter|first2=Jane|title=The world’s best falafel recipe comes from Egypt|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/20/worlds-best-falafel-recipe-henry-dimbleby-back-to-basics|accessdate=23 Maret 2015|publisher=The Guardian|date=20 Maret 2015}}</ref>