torta
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8.6
An egg dish mixed with vegetables, meat, or seafood
- noun
- Philippine
:
tortilla (filipina)
Examples
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We will make a torta that we call.
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And I tell you what, I do love a good torta.
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For breakfast, I enjoy a torta filled with vegetables and cheese.
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She made a torta with shrimp and tomatoes for dinner last night.
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To prepare the torta, mix the eggs with spinach and cook it until golden.
Synonyms
76
1.0
A cooked dish of mixed eggs folded around fillings like cheese or vegetables
is a Filipino version often mixed with vegetables, meat, or seafood
frittata
vstorta
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6.3
An Italian omelet with eggs, vegetables, and sometimes meat cooked until firm
is mixed and served as a Filipino-style egg dish rather than inverted to finish
Surface Forms
Etymology
Torta for a Filipino omelette comes from Spanish torta and the related tortilla, words that could mean a 'small cake' or an egg dish; Spanish speakers used these words for flat egg-based dishes, so in the Philippines torta became the name for an omelette made with eggs and other ingredients.