What Salsa macha means
Salsa macha is a Mexican salsa or sauce name of Spanish origin meaning "macho sauce". It is built from Spanish salsa (sauce) and macha (feminine of macho, tough, brave). It is pronounced SAL-sah MAH-chah, and it is most associated with Veracruz.
The name is a dare: macha is the feminine of macho, and hacerse el macho means to act tough. A chile-and-oil sauce from the Veracruz coast, thick with seeds and nuts.
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.
