Spanish rice
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- noun
- US
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arroz a la española
- The restaurant serves Spanish rice made with fresh tomatoes and spices.
- Spanish rice sample
Examples
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The Spanish rice sample did not contain preformed toxin and probably became contaminated with S. aureus as a result of being shipped in the same container when shipped from homes to church and being mixed with taco meat.
Academic text (1997) -
The taco meat and Spanish rice were prepared in two batches by different women.
Academic text (1997) -
All case patients reported eating beef tacos, and the one person who did not eat any tacos did not become ill, although she had eaten Spanish rice and beans.
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The authors identified improper food-handling practices for one batch of taco meat and one batch of Spanish rice.
Academic text (1997) -
If you want to make Spanish rice, for instance, it's much cheaper (and probably healthier) to make it from scratch than to just open a box of pre-assembled ingredients and add water.
Blog text (12) -
High amounts of S. aureus (2.8 x 10^6 organisms/gram) were detected in taco and Spanish rice samples.
Academic text (1997) -
Preformed staphylococcal enterotoxin was detected both in taco samples that were treated with urea and zinc acetate and in those not treated, but was not detected in the Spanish rice sample.
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I had chicken fajitas with a side of Spanish rice for dinner.
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For our family gathering, we prepared Spanish rice to accompany the tacos.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward adjective + noun: 'Spanish' specifies the style/origin of the rice, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to rice prepared in a Spanish or Spanish-influenced style. Although the exact ingredients (tomatoes, peppers, onions) are not fully predictable, the general idea of a regionally seasoned rice dish is compositional and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Spanish rice may come from English-speaking cooks who saw a red, tomato-based rice in Mexico and called it 'Spanish' because they thought it came from Spain or Spanish people. That's why today Spanish rice means a 'side dish' of rice cooked with tomatoes, onions and peppers.