Want to save interesting info? Just take a Screenshot ethnic food or Print the page Issue 70, Oct 9, 2020 - Print & Online [email protected] www.ethnicfood.ca For your table: Cranberry and sweet potato stuffing (NC) Looking for 2 tbsp (30 mL) olive oil heat for 5 minutes something special to serve 30 g unsalted butter until softened. up this holiday season? Add grated sweet Add some colour and 1 medium onion, finely chopped potatoes and flavour to your table with continue to cook this delicious stuffing. 2 small sweet potatoes, for another 3 A perfect marriage of grated minutes. sweet and savoury, this is a recipe the whole family 100 g dried cranberries Add the will love. 75 g shelled pistachios, ingredients in roughly chopped the pan to your Cranberry and breadcrumbs, Handful of flat leaf parsley and saffron Sweet Potato parsley, chopped with soaking Stuffing Pinch of saffron threads water; mix. soaked in 3 tbsp (45 mL) Season with salt potato mixture. 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Six Interesting Facts thin envelope of wheat and commonly shaped like a About Samosa deep-fried in ghee”. ball, sometimes takes on 3. The word Falāfil (Arabic: ) is the plural ofلفالف the form of a flat patty meaning ,(لفلف) or burger. Let’s see …. Filfil amazing facts about it! “pepper”. The Arabic word falāfil has been globalized 1. Nobody knows for sure into many other languages where the first falafel was and spread around the rest 4. Samosa has various made. Some food historians of the world as the general Samosa is all time favorite different names - like think they came from name for this food. In and one of the most samsa, somsa, sambosak, Egypt, while others point to English, it is first attested in delicious snacks. The people sambusa, singada, India where chickpeas are 1941. of Indian origin residing in samuza, sambosa, somasi. very popular. different part of the world Vegetarian samosas actually 4. During Ramadan, falafel have contributed a lot originated in Uttar Pradesh 2. Despite the likely balls are sometimes eaten towards the popularizing of state in India. origins elsewhere, Israel as part of the iftar, the samosa which is now very has staked a claim to the meal that breaks the daily well known in Canada, 5. Vegetable samosas are falafel; it’s a national dish fast after sunset. USA, UK, and other the most common kind in Israel. In modern times, Cont. on page 3 >> European countries. eaten around the world. falafel has been considered a national dish of Egypt, Samosa is a triangular Its counterpart, shaped cuisine, filled with Samosa with various ingredients and minced meat are generally Fantasia Event Hall are generally fried before A truly unique Event Hall that offers serving. It’s generally eaten in certain geographic one of the most versatile cuisines, best service and eaten hot and with assorted amazing event program! pickles. 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A triangular fried food named ‘sanbosag’ was a 11 Amazing mention for the first time in Facts About the Persian historian Abul- Falafel Fazl Beyhaqi’s writings in the 11th century. 3. Samosa was actually non-vegetarian snacks. The filling inside samosa was non-vegetarian. Falafel is a deep- fried ball or patty, It is evident from the described by writing of renowned traveler Google as “the Ibn Battuta. The writing best thing that 2180 Steeles Ave W, Suite #7 Concord says: ever happened (Steeles & Keele), Теl: (289) 597-8488 , (905) 761-1028 “minced meat cooked with to chickpeas.” almonds, pistachios, onions, www.fantasiaeventhall.ca For advertising call: (416) 821-9915 Subscribe online: www.ethnicfood.ca 3 << Cont. from page 2 5. The Falafel Index 7. In 2010 Lebanese Chef Egyptian variety uses only Fava Beans: 12 Ramzi Choueiri and the fava beans. In 1986 Economist students of Al Kafaat Fascinating Facts magazine invented the “Big University in Lebanon set 10. In Israel, the Falafel is Mac Index” to measure the a world record, cooking typically served in a pita typical purchasing power the largest amount of bread pocket, topped with in different countries: falafel balls: 5,173 kg in salad and hummus – as assessing how expensive total. In 2012, one of the well as German sauerkraut, a Big Mac was versus the hotels in the capital of Iraqi fried eggplant, Indian purchasing ability of a Jordan, Amman, prepared pickled mango sauce, Fava beans (also known as typical family. The London- the world’s largest Falafel Yemeni hot sauce, and broad beans, horse bean, based Majalla Arabic disc weighing about 75 French fries. field bean) are one of the magazine invented the kg – breaking the previous oldest known cultivated Falafel Index, measuring record set at a Jewish food 11. When made with plants. Fava beans date how much a typical festival in the United States chickpeas, falafel is high back to about 6000 BCE sandwich costs in local in protein, complex and were eaten by the currency. 8. Falafel has become carbohydrates, and fiber. ancient Greeks, Romans, popular among vegetarians Chickpeas are low in fat and and settlers of the eastern 6. Falafel became so popular and vegans, as an alternative contain no cholesterol, but Mediterranean. Fava beans that McDonald’s for a time to meat-based street foods, a considerable amount of are part of the pulse family served a “McFalafel” and is now sold in packaged fat is absorbed during the which includes dried peas, in its breakfast menu all mixes in health-food stores. frying process. edible beans, lentils, and over Egypt. 9. Falafel is made from fava chickpeas. Today, fava beans or chickpeas, or a beans are part of European, combination of the two. 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