comal
Americannoun
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comals,
plural
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comales
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of comal
1835–45, < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl comālli
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Rather than portray such a violent scene, Nava shows Rosa arriving at her mother’s comal and finding it full of white butterflies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Heat up a comal or skillet over medium heat, then toast the pasilla chiles for about 1 to 2 minutes, flipping with tongs as they toast.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
My memories of it range from clear as a cloudless day to hazy, like the hot steam coming off a taquero’s comal.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2022
A bulbous cut of pork crisps on the rotating trompo over an open flame and tortillas are flipped on a Mexican comal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
Meanwhile Angelina had come out from behind the comal and joined her husband.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“We tried to lay out the adobe bricks and the comales in a way that felt like you were in your grandmother’s kitchen in a garden,” Garcia said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
To build the kitchen and three comales for this meal, for example, she gathered adobe bricks and wet clay from her hometown, San Mateo Yucutindoo, in the mountains outside Oaxaca City.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
And while the tacos are the stars here, Fuentes and his cooks shower the same amount of attention onto the consomé, a smoky, brothy goat soup served up from a furtive crock behind the comales.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
The line moves slowly: Two cooks stand behind hotel pans of carnitas and barbacoa, carefully flipping piles of corn tortillas every few seconds on two steel comales taqueros.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
Foods like frijoles and papas, clothing, plows, tools, nails, machetes, ropes, leather goods, baskets, comales for the toasting of tortillas and such, cleaning rags, buckets, and jeans jeans jeans, which have taken over.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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