hallaca
Spanish
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- Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: ha‧lla‧ca
Noun
edithallaca f (plural hallacas)
- (Venezuela) Venezuelan Christmas dish made with corn dough, often filled with many ingredients, e.g. beans, meat, chicken, pork, wrapped in banana leaves and then cooked by steaming or in boiling water
- Synonyms: multisápida, tamale
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “hallaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014