WAIE (whatamieating.com)
This is the searchable online international food dictionary with 67,413 terms in 307 languages plus 42,027 plurals. Just type in the word that you're looking for and press enter or click on search.
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Plural: tamales
Language: Spanish
Description: Any of a number of fillings, such as corn meal dough or thick porridge stuffed with minced (US: ground) meat, cumin and chilli, wrapped in a corn husk and baked and served with hot chilli sauce.
| Tamales steaming at the beautiful Camino Real in Oaxaca City in Mexico |
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Pronounced: tah-MAH-lehs
Ethnicity: Mexican, Spanish
Most frequent country: Widespread
See places: Spanish food and cuisine, Mexican food and cuisine
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