cachupa

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noun

A slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of Cape Verde.

OriginPortuguese cachupa →
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Meanings

nouncachupa (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of Cape Verde.

    A one-pot meal, cachupa, is unofficially the national dish of Cape Verde, a drought-stricken archipelago off the western bulge of Africa. The dish is chock-full of cassava, seasoned sausages, corn and potatoes.

    1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin

  1. Portuguesecachupa
  2. Englishcachupa

Borrowed from Portuguese cachupa.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Pachuca
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APA

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Chicago

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