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cachupa

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

cachupa: a slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of...
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Noun

cachupa (uncountable)

  1. A 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 of cachupa

Borrowed from Portuguese cachupa.

Questions about cachupa

What does cachupa mean?
Cachupa means a slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of Cape Verde.
What part of speech is cachupa?
Cachupa is a noun.

Words near cachupa in the dictionary

  1. cachuas
  2. cachucha
  3. cachuchas
  4. cachumber
  5. cachumbers
  6. cachupa
  7. Cacica
  8. cacicazgo
  9. cacicazgos
  10. cacik
  11. caciks

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