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Meaning of cachupa | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A slow-cooked stew of hominy, beans, cassava, sweet potato, and fish or meat, a traditional dish of Cape Verde.

uncountable

Equivalents

Português cachupa

Examples

“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.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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