Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stew or soup of Latin America and the Caribbean made from various meats, tubers such as yams or cassavas, and other ingredients.

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  • noun soup cooked with meat and starchy plants (such as roots or plantains) usually ate for lunch.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, from Spanish half-cooked food, from Vulgar Latin *subcoctus, undercooked, cooked a little : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin coctus, cooked, past participle of coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]

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From sancocho.

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Examples

  • All you have to do is tell us about the best bowl of soup you've ever had after a whole week of fasting ... a nice, warm bowl of a root vegetable "sancocho" with lots of broth does it for me ... first time I ever made cream of mushroom soup from scratch, insanely rich but unbelievably delicious

    Serious Eats 2010

  • All you have to do is tell us about the best bowl of soup you've ever had after a whole week of fasting ... a nice, warm bowl of a root vegetable "sancocho" with lots of broth does it for me ... first time I ever made cream of mushroom soup from scratch, insanely rich but unbelievably delicious

    Serious Eats 2010

  • Dominican sancocho and café con leche are difficult to find.

    Hudson Heights Pumps More-for-Less Theme Kavita Mokha 2011

  • The end product was certainly a sancocho for my (home) sick soul.

    Pascale Boucicaut: (Home)sick Chicken Soup: Sancocho Pascale Boucicaut 2010

  • The end product was certainly a sancocho for my (home) sick soul.

    Pascale Boucicaut: (Home)sick Chicken Soup: Sancocho Pascale Boucicaut 2010

  • In old San Juan, Puerto Rico, only a fellow chef would have led a hungry gang of mainland cooks to the best spot for heady sancocho, and another for a textbook lechon, that ideal expression of the pig and its juxtaposition of crispy, juicy, and fatty.

    Michael Laiskonis: Travel Like a Chef Michael Laiskonis 2010

  • In old San Juan, Puerto Rico, only a fellow chef would have led a hungry gang of mainland cooks to the best spot for heady sancocho, and another for a textbook lechon, that ideal expression of the pig and its juxtaposition of crispy, juicy, and fatty.

    Michael Laiskonis: Travel Like a Chef Michael Laiskonis 2010

  • In old San Juan, Puerto Rico, only a fellow chef would have led a hungry gang of mainland cooks to the best spot for heady sancocho, and another for a textbook lechon, that ideal expression of the pig and its juxtaposition of crispy, juicy, and fatty.

    Michael Laiskonis: Travel Like a Chef Michael Laiskonis 2010

  • In old San Juan, Puerto Rico, only a fellow chef would have led a hungry gang of mainland cooks to the best spot for heady sancocho, and another for a textbook lechon, that ideal expression of the pig and its juxtaposition of crispy, juicy, and fatty.

    Michael Laiskonis: Travel Like a Chef Michael Laiskonis 2010

  • In old San Juan, Puerto Rico, only a fellow chef would have led a hungry gang of mainland cooks to the best spot for heady sancocho, and another for a textbook lechon, that ideal expression of the pig and its juxtaposition of crispy, juicy, and fatty.

    Michael Laiskonis: Travel Like a Chef Michael Laiskonis 2010

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  • A traditional soup/stew in several Spanish and Latin American cuisines whose variations represent popular national dishes in the Canary Islands of Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Argentina, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. It usually consists of pieces of meat and vegetables served in a broth or some sort, creamy or otherwise. Derived in part, at least in the Caribbean, from Puchero Canario or sancocho from Canary Island immigrants to Latin America.

    September 24, 2009