cascara
Definitions
n. Shells or peels.
Example Sentences
"Or when cooking fava beans, the shells (cascaras) would be stuffed with a mixture of meat, rice, parsley and onions and baked with tomato sauce to create another dish." (Sephardic Heritage Cookbook: Ottoman, Persian, Moroccan, Egyptian Recipes and More by Sephardic Temple Or Chadash Sisterhood)
Languages of Origin
- Ladino
Etymology
cascara
- Ottoman Sephardim: Jews with ancestry in Spain and, post-expulsion, in Turkey, Greece, and other parts of the Ottoman Empire
- North America
- None
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Alternative Spellings
kaskara
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