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Terms in Catalan 571-580 of 1164

herba

/EHR-bahs/
[Catalan]

Herbs

jamba

[Catalan] plural jambas

A pale pink prawn (US: shrimp) with a pronounced red beak found in the deep waters of the Mediterranean.

jonquet

[Catalan] plural jonquetes

Gobies or possibly tiny atherines. Minute, silver fish similar to whitebait and deep fried in the same way. These days chanquetes refers to any small fish cooked in this way and nicknamed sea spaghetti.

Juliol

[Catalan]

July

julivert

/jhoo-lee-VEHRT/
[Catalan]

Parsley

junclà

[Catalan]

Corkwing. A type of wrasse, a small, marine fish (up to 15 cm (1 ft) in length) which is good in soups. The largest is the peacock wrasse.

Juny

[Catalan]

June

kokotxes

[Catalan]

The flesh of the lower jaw, ganglions that grow in the throat of the hake, greatly prized in Spain, and shaped like an arrow-head. They sound almost like tonsils.

la barreja

/lah bah-REH-jhah/
[Catalan]

Chilled wine with anisette

la calçotada

/kahl-soh-TAH-dah/
[Catalan]

A traditional Catalan dish of roasted calçots, a type of thick, green spring onions (US: scallion, salad onion), with olive oil and almonds with a spicy romesco sauce.