She would peel back the husk, ladle over the salsa verde, stab a plastic fork straight down into the heart of the masa, and hand the tamale over to me.
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Tamale
//təˈmɑː.liː//
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11 translations across 6 languages.
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏔᎹᎴ noun (Mexican dish)
Isthmus Zapotec
1 entries- gueta guu noun (Mexican dish)
Navajo
3 entries- Naakaii bintsidígoʼí noun (Mexican dish)
- ałchʼįʼ beʼestłʼóní noun (Mexican dish)
- nijiloʼí noun (Mexican dish)
Spanish
4 entries- paco noun (Mexican dish)
- pishque noun (Mexican dish)
- tamal noun (Mexican dish)
- tamale noun (Mexican dish)
Tagalog
1 entries- tamales noun (Mexican dish)
Taos
1 entries- tomòliʼína noun (Mexican dish)
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