huarache

plural huaraches · alternative guarache · alternative guarachi

1. footwearA Mexican sandal.

   The huaraches he wore looked like dried and blackened fish lashed to the floors of his feet.

   1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter VIII, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC

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   My shoes, damn fool that I am, were Mexican huaraches, plantlike sieves not fit for the rainy night of America and the raw road night.

   1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 2, in On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1

2. cookingA food similar in shape to such a sandal, consisting of a fried masa dough base with a topping, typically salsa, potato, meat, or cheese.

   They’re then ground into a homogeneous dough that holds whatever shape you choose to give it: thin circles for tortillas, thicker ones for gorditas and sopes, plump ovals for huaraches and triangles for black-bean stuffed tetelas.

   2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2023