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Terms in Spanish 1951-1960 of 4913

champurrado

/sham-poo-RAH-doh/
[Spanish] plural champurrados

A chocolate flavoured atole made with milk and/or water, thickened with masa harina (cornflour (US: corn starch) treated with lime) and boiled to make a kind of thin gruel. It can be served either hot or cold but is usually served warm.

chancha de vainilla

/CHAHN-chah deh vah-ee-NEE-yah/
[Spanish]

Vanilla pod

chanclet

[Spanish] plural chanclets

Glassy fish. Could you send details (and a picture) to queries@whatamieating.com if you know more?

chanfaina castellana

/chahn-fah-EE-nah kahs-teh-YAH-nah/
[Spanish]

Pig's liver stewed in a sauce of tomatoes and red chillis.

chanfaina de ave

/chahn-fah-EE-nah deh AH-beh/
[Spanish]

Chicken stewed in a majado which includes pig's liver, almonds and garlic, and with hard boiled eggs added.

chanfana

/chahn-FAH-nah/
[Spanish]

Braised lamb or kid

changurro

[Spanish] plural changurros

Spider crab. This is a crab with little meat but what it has is well-flavoured. It has a large, oval spiked body and long, thin spidery legs, hence its name.

changurro relleno

/chahn-GOO-roh re-YEH-noh/
[Spanish]

A spider crab from which the meat is removed and mixed with hake, finely chopped onion, parsley, garlic and lemon juice, replaced in the shell, topped with grated cheese and breadcrumbs and baked.

chanquete

[Spanish] plural chanquetes

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. These are probably the same thing that the Ligurians called bianchetti or nunnate, being the freshly hatched fry of any of herrings, sprats, anchovies or sardines.

chantarella

[Spanish]

Chanterelle mushroom, usually sautéed in butter with chopped onions.