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arroz con pollo

arroz con pollo

1 7.2
A rice and chicken dish cooked together with spices, often saffron
  • noun
  • /ɑˈroʊs kɒn ˈpoʊjoʊ/
translation icon : arroz con pollo
  • My world-famous, famous world Arroz con pollo will be ready very soon.
  • make arroz con pollo

Examples

  • I could cook arroz con pollo.

    Stonewall (2015)

  • A meal: arroz con pollo.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Did I tell you that Mom taught me how to make arroz con pollo?

    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

  • The arroz con pollo Consuelo made was fabulous.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Arroz con pollo.

    The Equalizer 2 (2018)

  • You know, Cuban sandwiches, platanos, arroz con pollo... simple shit, like what we used to do for family meals.

    Chef (2014)

  • My grandmother's arroz con pollo is the best I've ever tasted, with the perfect blend of spices.

  • For dinner, we decided to try a new recipe for arroz con pollo that includes saffron for extra flavor.

  • At the festival, everyone raved about the delicious arroz con pollo served at the food stalls.

Synonyms

paella
vsarroz con pollo
17 5.1

A Spanish rice dish made with saffron and ingredients like seafood or chicken in a wide pan

focuses mainly on seasoned rice with chicken rather than many varied ingredients
chicken purloo
vsarroz con pollo
  • US
9.8

A thick rice stew with chicken from the southern United States

is more highly seasoned and not presented as a thick regional stew

How Seasoned

arroz con pollo
1 7.2
paella
17 5.1

Surface Forms

arroz con pollo singular
arroz con pollos plural

Morphology

arroz + con + pollo

The phrase is a literal composition: arroz (rice) + con (with) + pollo (chicken) yields 'rice with chicken', so a learner who knows the constituent words can directly infer the dish. This X-with-Y food-naming pattern is cross-linguistically common, making the expression immediately comprehensible rather than idiomatic.

Etymology

Arroz con pollo literally names the dish: arroz 'rice' and pollo 'chicken' in Spanish. It comes from the simple one-pot way of cooking rice and chicken together so the flavors blend, so the name now refers to the well-seasoned rice-and-chicken dish we eat today.