cachupa
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese cachupa.
Noun[edit]
cachupa (uncountable)
- A slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of Cape Verde.
- 1987 July 29, Steven Barboza, “Culinary Delights of Africa Reflect a Continent's Diversity”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- A one-pot meal, cachupa, is unofficially the national dish of Cape Verde, a drought-stricken archipelago off the western bulge of Africa. The dish is chock-full of cassava, seasoned sausages, corn and potatoes.
