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Salsa borracha

"drunken sauce"

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SAL·sah boh·RRAH·chah

Built from

Spanish salsasauce+borrachadrunk, feminine

What Salsa borracha means

Salsa borracha is a Mexican salsa or sauce name of Spanish origin meaning "drunken sauce". It is built from Spanish salsa (sauce) and borracha (drunk, feminine). It is pronounced SAL-sah boh-RRAH-chah, and it is most associated with Hidalgo.

Made with pulque, or beer where pulque is scarce, so the sauce itself is the one that has been drinking. It is the traditional partner to barbacoa in the states around Mexico City.

This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Salsa simply means sauce. The interesting names are the older ones: mole from Nahuatl mōlli, guacamole from āhuacamōlli, and pico de gallo, "rooster's beak", whose name nobody can fully explain.

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Salsa borracha means drunken sauce

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