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paella

/pəˈɛlə/
/pɑˈjeɪjə/
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Other forms: paellas

You're most likely to see paella on the menu at a Spanish restaurant. It's a stew-like dish that combines seafood or meat with rice and vegetables, usually cooked in a large, low-sided pan.

This Spanish dish of saffroned rice, usually with seafood and chicken thrown in, is ultimately from a Latin word for "pan," patella , and thus joins a number of foods in which a required cooking utensil forms part of the name of the dish: "hotpot," "hoecake," and "spoon bread," to name a few.

Definitions of paella
  1. noun
    saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken
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    dish
    a particular item of prepared food
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US
/pəˈɛlə/
UK
/pɑˈjeɪjə/
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