romesco

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A Spanish sauce of roasted red peppers, nuts, and olive oil that you eat with vegetables or fish

noun
/roʊˈmɛskoʊ/

: romesco

romesco sauce
make romesco

Examples

And Nina made you guys homemade romesco sauce.
You can enhance grilled vegetables by serving them with romesco sauce.
The chef prepared a delicious dish that featured shrimp served with romesco sauce.
At the restaurant, we enjoyed a flavorful dipping sauce made from roasted peppers, also known as romesco.

Surface Forms

romesco singular

romescoes plural

Etymology

Romesco comes from the Catalan town Reus, so the name originally meant 'from Reus' or 'in the style of Reus'. Today romesco is the red pepper and nut sauce that began in that part of Catalonia, which is why the sauce still carries the town's name.