paella
noun/paɪˈelə/
/paɪˈelə/
[uncountable, countable]- a Spanish dish of rice, chicken, fish and vegetables, cooked and served in a large shallow panTopics Foodc1Word OriginCatalan, from Old French paele, from Latin patella, diminutive of patina ‘shallow dish’, from Greek patanē ‘a plate’.
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