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zacusca

zacusca noun: a vegetable spread popular in Romania, made with roasted eggplant, sautéed onions, tomato paste, and roasted red peppers.

zacusca: a vegetable spread popular in Romania, made with roasted eggplant, sautéed onions, tomato paste,...
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Noun

zacusca (uncountable)

  1. A vegetable spread popular in Romania, made with roasted eggplant, sautéed onions, tomato paste, and roasted red peppers.
    • He took a piece of fish, a mouthful of bread, a few spoons of zacusca and then wished us a good rest with the warmest […]2004, Augustin Buzura, Requiem for Fools and Beasts, page 438
    • Meanwhile your guide begins to unpack the picnic: slices of pork from local Durac pigs; zacusca, a tomato and pepper sauce made to your guide's mother's own recipe; wine from the grapes in her cobbled courtyard; and cheeses – salty cas and ricotta-like urda – recently made by the shepherd's wife.2009, Richard Hammond, Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World, page 116

Examples of zacusca in a sentence

  • Breakfast was rye bread, beans, pickles and zacusca, a Romanian version of ratatouille, over-boiled so we used it as a spread.2010, Florin Grancea, The Pigs' Slaughter, page 16:
  • "Certainly," he answers, and so I get out some bread and the Zacusca (vegetable paste) to get him started, then I begin to make a sour soup with cabbage and potatoes and sour cream, of course.2016, Alice Ann Lake, My Romance In the Carpathian Mountains: A Past Life Retold:

Forms of zacusca

alternative formzacuscă

Origin of zacusca

Borrowed from Romanian zacuscă. Doublet of zakuska.

Questions about zacusca

What does zacusca mean?
Zacusca means a vegetable spread popular in Romania, made with roasted eggplant, sautéed onions, tomato paste, and roasted red peppers.
How do you use zacusca in a sentence?
Breakfast was rye bread, beans, pickles and zacusca, a Romanian version of ratatouille, over-boiled so we used it as a spread.
What part of speech is zacusca?
Zacusca is a noun.

Words near zacusca in the dictionary

  1. zackley
  2. zackly
  3. zacks
  4. zacopride
  5. zacs
  6. zacusca
  7. zacuscă
  8. Zacynthian
  9. Zacynthians
  10. Zacynthus
  11. zad

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