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croqueta

croqueta noun: a Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.

Noun

croqueta (plural croquetas)

  1. A Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.
  2. A Spanish croquette, a typical tapas dish.
    • The restaurant’s croqueta, or savory fritters, are served piping hot, with a molten core.2007 February 18, “Hail to the Menus”, in New York Times
    • Then again this is Mayfair. A big, rustling bowl of deep-fried squid with a salty chilli kick cost £7.50; a generous pile of jamon croquetas, the shells giving way to something creamy and intensely hammy within, was 50p less.2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Forms of croqueta

pluralcroquetas

Origin of croqueta

Borrowed from Spanish croqueta. Doublet of croquette.

Questions about croqueta

What does croqueta mean?
Croqueta means a Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.
What part of speech is croqueta?
Croqueta is a noun.
What is the plural of croqueta?
The plural of croqueta is croquetas.

Words near croqueta in the dictionary

  1. croquembouche
  2. croquembouches
  3. croquet
  4. croquet mallet
  5. croquet mallets
  6. croqueta
  7. croquetas
  8. croqueted
  9. croqueter
  10. croqueters
  11. croqueting

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