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kapusta

kapusta noun: a dish of braised or stewed sauerkraut or cabbage, with bacon, mushroom and onion or garlic.

Noun

kapusta (uncountable)

  1. A dish of braised or stewed sauerkraut or cabbage, with bacon, mushroom and onion or garlic.
    • Fresh kiełbasa is made, center cut pork chops are trimmed just right, and the kapusta (sauerkraut) is prepared for cooking.1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind.; London: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 107
    • Then the kapusta was packed into jars super tight and topped with a little kraut juice.2000, Jim Vozar, “Making Kapusta and Having Fun”, in Wisconsin Slovak, Wisconsin Slovak Historical Society
  2. Cabbage soup.
    • So you are the gentleman from America who has come to try out our kapusta (cabbage soup) and Communism. I am sure you will go back praising our kapusta.1931, Albert Muldavin, The Red Fog Lifts, New York, N.Y.; London: D. Appleton and Company, page 264
    • The cabbage soup, the kapusta, it will be ready soon.1952, Alf Evers, The Colonel’s Squad, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 18

Examples of kapusta in a sentence

  • And there would be the typical mother/daughter bickering over how much salt to add to the kapusta, a traditional cooked cabbage dish.2016, Kenna White, Virgin Territory, Tallahassee, Fla.: Bella Books, →ISBN:
  • Another interesting offering is kapusta ($1.50 cup, $2.50 bowl), a sauerkraut soup native to Poland.1994 February 9, Beverly Bundy, “Riscky’s is back in the Saddle and almost as good”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 88th year, number 290...

Origin of kapusta

From Polish kapusta, Russian капу́ста (kapústa), Slovak kapusta, Ukrainian капу́ста (kapústa).

Questions about kapusta

What does kapusta mean?
Kapusta means a dish of braised or stewed sauerkraut or cabbage, with bacon, mushroom and onion or garlic.
How do you use kapusta in a sentence?
And there would be the typical mother/daughter bickering over how much salt to add to the kapusta, a traditional cooked cabbage dish.
What part of speech is kapusta?
Kapusta is a noun.

Words near kapusta in the dictionary

  1. Kapur-Toriello syndrome
  2. Kapurs
  3. Kapurthala
  4. kapus
  5. Kapuskasing
  6. kapusta
  7. Kapustin Yar
  8. kapustinite
  9. kaput
  10. Kaputar
  11. kaputness

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