Meanings
plural sobrassadas · alternative sobrasada
- countableuncountableA spiced, cured pork sausage from the Balearic Islands.
I love the rich flavor of the duck eggs with the spicy sobrassada and sweetness of quince paste.
2012, Seamus Mullen, Seamus Mullen's Hero Food, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 1081 more example
He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.
2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
- Italiansoprassata
- Catalansobrassada
- Englishsobrassada
Borrowed from Catalan sobrassada, from Italian soprassata.
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