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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Murals on side streets depict women cooking tortillas on a comal and musicians playing guitar and accordion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
You can also use a comal, griddle, cast-iron skillet, or wok; heat the pan until it's very hot and cook on both sides until toasty.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022
During the next two weeks, Mama cooked outside on a makeshift stove using rocks and a comal Dona Lupe had given her.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
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
“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
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
He is rightly protective of his recipes, but admits that one secret ingredient are the two comales he imported from Mexico.
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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