moqueca

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese moqueca, from Kimbundu mukeka.

Noun

moqueca (countable and uncountable, plural moquecas)

  1. A Brazilian stew from the state of Bahia, based on fish, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and cilantro.
    • 1999 February 26, Don Rose, “Restaurant Tours: Nuevo Latino is heating up”, in Chicago Reader:
      Now he serves up such Bahian specialties as moqueca, a zesty shellfish stew simmered in rich coconut milk and rice ($16).
    • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 180:
      Eating the crayfish moqueca was almost as painful at the outset as it was delicious.
    • 2005 November 4, Martha Bayne, Kate Schmidt, Mike Sula, “Chichi Sushi in Uptown, Nuevo Latino on the Near South Side, and the Ultimate Serbian Bakery”, in Chicago Reader:
      But the standout of the evening had to be the moqueca do mar, a seafood stew with a kick-ass tomato-coconut milk broth perfumed with saffron and served with a little silver dish of rice and a few tostones.

Portuguese

Moqueca

Etymology

Borrowed from Kimbundu mukeka.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
  • Hyphenation: mo‧que‧ca

Noun

moqueca f (plural moquecas)

  1. moqueca

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