manjar blanco
Spanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmanjar blanco m (plural manjares blancos)
- a dish made of chicken breast, sugar, milk, and rice flour
- blancmange, a dessert made with milk, almonds, sugar, and rice flour
- (Cuba) a dessert made with milk, sugar, maize flour, and spices
- (Peru) a traditional white-colored confection of condensed milk with sugar and other flavorings, having a consistency similar to peanut butter; not to be confused with dulce de leche
- (El Salvador, Panama, Peru) dulce de leche
- Synonyms: dulce de leche, (El Salvador) leche poleada, (Spain) manjar, natillas
Further reading
edit- “manjar blanco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014