mofongo

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Mofongo

Noun

[edit]

mofongo (countable and uncountable, plural mofongos)

  1. A Caribbean dish of fried green plantains or yuca seasoned with garlic, olive oil and pork crackling, then mashed.

Spanish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Bantu mofongo, more specifically from the Angolan Kikongo term mfwenge-mfwenge, which means “a great amount of anything at all".

Noun

[edit]

mofongo m (plural mofongos)

  1. a Caribbean dish of fried green plantains or yuca seasoned with garlic, olive oil and pork crackling, then mashed