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Salsa verde

"green sauce"

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SAL·sah VER·deh

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Spanish salsasauce, from Latin salsus 'salted'+verdegreen

What Salsa verde means

Salsa verde is a Mexican salsa or sauce name of Spanish origin meaning "green sauce". It is built from Spanish salsa (sauce, from Latin salsus 'salted') and verde (green). It is pronounced SAL-sah VER-deh, and it is most associated with the whole country.

Salsa's root is the Latin word for salted, which is why the same word covers sauce and, much later, the music. The green comes from tomatillo, which is not an unripe tomato but its own fruit, Nahuatl miltomatl.

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 verde means green sauce

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