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Mexican cuisine staple
Answer for the clue "Mexican cuisine staple ", 9 letters:
tomatillo
Alternative clues for the word tomatillo
- Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk
- Green salsa ingredient
- Mother with work that also bears fruit
- Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
- Mexican ground cherry
- Salsa verde ingredient
Word definitions for tomatillo in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fruit of the genus ''Physalis'', resembling the tomato but surrounded by a thin papery skin.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes [syn: miltomate , purple ground cherry , jamberry , Physalis philadelphica ] annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The tomatillo ( Physalis philadelphica ), also known as the Mexican husk tomato, is a plant of the nightshade family bearing small, spherical and green or green-purple fruit of the same name. Tomatillos originated in Mexico and were cultivated in the pre-Columbian ...
Usage examples of tomatillo.
I was, and order a burrito with tomatillo sauce and a couple of margaritas or Shiner Bocks.
I tell him the potpie was fine but there was way too much tomatillo sauce.
But there were times she would kill for a plate of chicken enchiladas smothered in tomatillo sauce.
Guys ordered more things in tomatillo sauce, went through a lot of little bottles of Tabasco, and asked for sliced jalapenos on their burgers.
I tell him the potpie was fine but there was way too much tomatillo sauce.
This meant that she stood elbow to elbow with about a hundred other people in a sweaty packing line dicing chiles and tomatillos and crushing garlic cloves into moving vats, with so much salsa slopping onto the floor that by the end of the day it sloshed around their ankles.
At first all she could ever talk about was cilantro and tomatillos and the people at Red Hot Mama’s, but after a time things got back to normal.
He does tomatillos, and I just boss people now, as you very well know.