mofongo

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Mofongo

Noun

mofongo (countable and uncountable, plural mofongos)

  1. A Caribbean dish of fried green plantains or yuca seasoned with garlic, olive oil and pork crackling, then mashed.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Bantu mofongo, more specifically from the Angolan Kikongo term mfwenge-mfwenge, which means “a great amount of anything at all".

Noun

mofongo m (plural mofongos)

  1. a Caribbean dish of fried green plantains or yuca seasoned with garlic, olive oil and pork crackling, then mashed