La Palabra Del Día "molcajete"
molcajete ( mohl-kah-HEH-the )
(noun) mortar
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1: Preparé la salsa en el molcajete que encontré en la cocina.
I prepared the sauce in the mortar I found in the kitchen.
2: En ese restaurante te sirven el guacamole en un molcajete.
At that restaurant they serve you guacamole in a mortar.
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A muchas mujeres mexicanas les encanta preparar una sabrosa salsa picante en su molcajete.
Many Mexican women love to prepare a delicious hot sauce in their molcajete.
Para preparar el pesto, ella pulverizó los piñones con un molcajete y pilón.
To make the pesto, she ground up the pine nuts with a mortar and pestle.
No uses el molcajete de tu esposa para mezclar el mortero. Usa un balde.
Do not use your wife's mortar to mix mortar. Use a bucket.
En Bolivia le llamamos: Tacú. Es tradicional principalmente en la zona de los llanos, al oeste de Bolivia.
El zonzo, consiste en moler yuca en el tacú (molcajete) mezclar con queso y asar a la brasa. algo parecido a una arepa. Cuando te dicen: Vamos a comer zonzo, no sabes si te están diciendo "zonzo, vamos a comer" o lo primero.
In Bolivia we call it: Tacú. It is mainly traditional in West Bolivia.
The zonzo, is a meal that consists in crushing yucca in a mortar, mixing with cheese and grilling. Like an arepa. When someone tells you: Let´s go to eat zonzo. one doesn´t really know if they are saying "Sucker, let´s go to eat" or the first.
No solamente comida, pero los medicamentos también son pulverizados con un molcajete y un pilón.
Not only food, but medications are also crushed using a mortar and pestle.
Ahora en la cocina de la gente donde hay espacio es a la moda de exhibir unos instrumentos de la cocina anciana, sobre todo unos molcajetes de latón.
Now in the kitchen of people when there is place enough, it is in the fashion of displaying utensils of the old kitchen, especially some mortar of copper.
To achieve a powdery finish, black peppercorn should be crushed on a mortar. Para lograr un acabado de polvo, el grano de pimienta negra se debe machacar en un molcajete.
My grandmother used a wood mortar to grind garlic, I use a garlic (squeezer) press. Mi abuela usaba un molcajete (mortero) de madera para moler ajo, yo uso un exprimidor de ajo.
Estoy confundido el diccionario da" mortero y maja " y no "molcajete" .¿Que es es correcta ?
I am confused the dictionary gives "mortar and pestle" not "molcajete". What is correct?
The English word mortar derives from classical Latin mortarium, meaning, among several other usages, "receptacle for pounding" and "product of grinding or pounding". The classical Latin pistillum, meaning "pounder", led to English pestle.
The Roman poet Juvenal applied both mortarium and pistillum to articles used in the preparation of drugs, reflecting the early use of the mortar and pestle as a symbol of a pharmacist or apothecary.
The antiquity of these tools is well documented in early writing, such as the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus of ~1550 BCE (the oldest preserved piece of medical literature) and the Old Testament (Numbers 11:8 and Proverbs 27:22).[3]
Traditional Indian mortar and pestle.
El molcajete fue utilizado por los Mayas y Aztecas hace miles de años.
The mortar was used by the Mayans and Aztecs thousands of years ago.
Si quieres realizar la cocina mexicana de cero, un molcajete es inprescindible.
If you want to make Mexican food from scratch, a mortar is essential.
Si estás luchando con tu pareja en la cocina, el molcajete es una cosa conveniente para tirar, pero creo que no es un buen idea porque no quieres ir a la cárcel por asesinato. De hecho, ¡olvida que dije eso! La violencia de cualquiera manera es malo.
If you are fighting with your partner in in kitchen, the mortar is a convenient thing to throw, but I think it's not a good idea because you don't want to go to prison for murder. In fact, forget I said that! Violence in any form is bad.
Aunque tenía un mortero pequeño, para la Navidad pasada mi esposa me compró un molcajete para que yo pudiera prepararla prepararle platos como los “molcajetes” que se sirven en los restaurantes mexicanos por aquí. Esto me recuerda que todavía no lo he usado y que debería hacerlo.
Although I had a small mortar, for the last Christmas my wife bought me a molcajete so I could make her dishes like the “molcajetes” that are served in Mexican restaurants around here. This reminds me that I have still not used it and that I should do so.
