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a Spanish meat made from unweaned lambs (roast lechazo-lambs-). Very typical of Valladolid. Lechazo de Castilla y León. Lomo embuchado: everywhere meat a cured meat made from a pork tenderloin. In its essentials, it is the same as Cecina, the Spanish air dried cured smoked Beef tenderloin Longaniza: everywhere sausage
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.
Migas (Spanish pronunciation:, Portuguese pronunciation:) ("crumbs" in English) is a dish traditionally made from stale bread and other ingredients in Spanish and Portuguese cuisines. Originally introduced by shepherds , migas are very popular across the Iberian Peninsula , and are the typical breakfast of hunters at monterías in southern Spain.
Known as "sincronizadas", the Spanish word for synchronized, are two corn tortillas with a meat and cheese filling then toasted on each side until the cheese melts. "Gringas", as the slang word for people with lighter skin tones, are similar to quesadillas or sincronizadas but made with flour tortilla, hence the name.
The Royal Spanish Academy defines the word enchilada, as used in Mexico, as a rolled maize tortilla stuffed with meat and covered with a tomato and chili sauce. [1] [2] Enchilada is the past participle of the Mexican Spanish enchilar, "to add chili pepper to"; literally, "to season (or decorate) with chili".
Leche frita – Traditional Spanish dessert, Spanish sweet typical of northern Spain; Manjar blanco – Dessert of milk or cream and sugar, thickened and flavoured; Marañuela – Spanish sweet; Miguelitos – Puff pastry dessert from Spain; Natillas – Spanish custard dish of milk and eggs, variety of custards; Pestiños – Andalusian sweet ...
The word burrito means "little donkey" in Spanish, the diminutive form of burro, or "donkey". The name burrito , as applied to the dish, possibly derives from the tendency for burritos to contain a lot of different things similar to how a donkey would be able to carry a large burden.
A sopaipilla, sopapilla, sopaipa, or cachanga [1] is a kind of fried pastry and a type of quick bread served in several regions with Spanish heritage in the Americas. [note 1] The word sopaipilla is the diminutive of sopaipa, a word that entered Spanish from the Mozarabic language of Al-Andalus. [9]