escabeche

British

/ ˌɛskəˈbɛtʃɪ /

noun

(in Mexican cookery) pickled vegetables such as onions, carrots, jalapeño peppers, and garlic, typically served with fish

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Etymology

Origin of escabeche

Spanish: pickled

Example Sentences

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Sticky, spicy jerk lamb ribs with a smoky pimento wood aroma and hamachi escabeche followed, setting the stage for the main course.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2025

At his more casual restaurant, Bar Amazonia, Delgado serves causa not Limeña style in layers, but open-faced and topped with shrimp escabeche, a preparation more common in northern Peru.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2022

Seidler and her team used Bolivia’s fauna and flora to create the restaurant’s idiosyncratic cuisine – llama tartare, alligator escabeche and a lot of quinoa – and brought the restaurant on to the foodie radar.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2020

Estela has such spectacular and perfect food — lamb ribs, mussels escabeche, salads with amazing things hiding underneath them!

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

Get a side of beans or escabeche slaw.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2017

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