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nata cuajada

[Spanish]

Soured cream (US: cultured sour cream).

natilla

/nah-TEEL-yah(z)/
[Spanish] plural natillas

Custard which may be set, turned out and cut into shapes.

natillas pluranas

[Spanish]

A caramelised sugar and milk mixture most easily produced by boiling a tin of sweetened condensed milk for two hours, as is used in banoffi pie.

navaja

/nah-VAH-hah/
[Spanish] plural navajas

This term applies to any of the razor shells, a type of long clam which beds itself into the sand.

navajon cirujano

[Spanish]

Doctorfish. Found in the Atlantic from Massachusetts to Brazil and in the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, where it is most often eaten. It is a dark, often blue-grey to dark brown, but can change its colour and lighten considerably. This will depend on its habitat, being darker nearer reefs and paler over sandy bottoms. It has a sharp, scalpel like spine located on either side of the body on the caudal peduncle. The teeth, which can be seen in this photograph, are spatula-like in shapea dn are used for scraping algae off the rocks. They reach up 20 30 cm (12") in length. The flesh is of good quality but, if the fish have been feeding from dead corals or algae there is a faint possibility of some slight and temporary poisoning to the person who consumes the fish.

navajon rayado

[Spanish]

Doctorfish. Found in the Atlantic from Massachusetts to Brazil and in the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, where it is most often eaten. It is a dark, often blue-grey to dark brown, but can change its colour and lighten considerably. This will depend on its habitat, being darker nearer reefs and paler over sandy bottoms. It has a sharp, scalpel like spine located on either side of the body on the caudal peduncle. The teeth, which can be seen in this photograph, are spatula-like in shapea dn are used for scraping algae off the rocks. They reach up 20 30 cm (12") in length. The flesh is of good quality but, if the fish have been feeding from dead corals or algae there is a faint possibility of some slight and temporary poisoning to the person who consumes the fish.

Navarra

/nah-BAHR-rah/
[Spanish]

Navarra was previously a kingdom of norther Spain and southern France, consisting of what is now Navarra in Spain and Basse-Pyrénées in France. Navarra now is a region of northern Spain between the Basque Country and Aragón with La Rioja to the south. Its capital is Pamplona, famous for its bull run. Sugar beet, vines and cereal crops are cultivated. In itself it has no particular reputation for its cuisine, except for its use of game and the freshwater fish that abound in its rivers and lakes, These are usually, as in the Basque Country, served with sauces such as chilindrón or cochifrito.

nebrina

[Spanish]

Juniper berry, good with strongly flavoured foods such as venison, and famously used in making gin.

nécora

/NEH-koh-rahs/
[Spanish] plural necoras

Velvet swimming crab. One of the largest of the swimming crabs. A small spider crab with sweet, flaky white flesh. It has good flavour but is too small to pick, so is used in soups.

nectarina

[Spanish] plural nectarinas

Nectarine. A smooth-skinned cultivar of a peach, not, as is often thought, a cross between a peach and a plum.