fasulia
Definitions
n. Green beans cooked with onions, tomatoes, and sometimes meat.
Example Sentences
"Dinner might consist of a fresh salad, a comida (main dish) made of fasulia (green beans cooked with onions, tomatoes or tomato sauce, and perhaps a piece of meat for flavor), with Sephardic rice (rice cooked with tomato sauce)." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)
Languages of Origin
- Ladino
Who Uses This
- Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
Regions
- North America
Dictionaries
- None
Alternative Spellings
fasoulia
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