bacalao
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A cooked dish of salted cod soaked before cooking in Spanish or Portuguese styles
- noun
- /ˌbɑːkəˈlaʊ/
- US
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bacalao
- At the feast, the highlight was the bacalao prepared with garlic and parsley.
Examples
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Today, the Spanish Caribbean is a rich source of recipes for bacalao.
Academic text (1991) -
For dinner, she served a delicious bacalao cooked in tomato sauce with olives.
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The restaurant is famous for its bacalao dishes, which capture the essence of traditional Spanish cuisine.
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Etymology
Bacalao comes from Portuguese bacalhau and was used for the special dishes made from cod that has been kept with salt and then soaked to cook. So when you hear bacalao it usually means the traditional Spanish or Portuguese cod dish.