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Rajas con crema

"chile strips with cream"

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RAH·has kon KREH·mah

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Spanish rajasstrips, splits+con cremawith cream

What Rajas con crema means

Rajas con crema is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "chile strips with cream". It is built from Spanish rajas (strips, splits) and con crema (with cream). It is pronounced RAH-has kon KREH-mah, and it is most associated with central Mexico.

A raja is a split or strip of anything, but on a Mexican menu it almost always means roasted poblano cut into ribbons.

This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.

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Rajas con crema means chile strips with cream

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