Tamale vs Tostada - What's the difference?
tamale | tostada |
Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.
(often, in the plural) A flat tortilla that has been fried or toasted, or a dish based on this. Usually associated with the cuisine of Latin America.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 3, author=Tatiana Boncompagni, title=Tostadas to a Salsa Beat, work=New York Times
, passage=A platter of chicken and octopus tostadas and two ceviches arrived at the table
(southern California) A bowl-shaped tortilla that has been fried and filled with various ingredients.
As nouns the difference between tamale and tostada
is that tamale is mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks while tostada is a flat tortilla that has been fried or toasted, or a dish based on this. Usually associated with the cuisine of Latin America.tamale
English
(tamale)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
The Standard Spanish singular is tamal, and thus some proscribe tamale' as an incorrect back-formation, preferring to use tamal as the English singular; note however that '''' exists in Spanish dialect [which?]. The similarity of '''tamale''' to the ancestral Nahuatl tamalli is not generally cited in support of the English usage of ' tamale .Synonyms
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* ----tostada
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