What does "passata" mean?
By youless
@youless (112146)
Guangzhou, China
February 8, 2016 1:47am CST
I am reading a cooking book in English now. I do not know the meaning of a word "passata". The sentence is: 300ml cups passata. I looked up Google translation but it seems it's an Italian word. Is it a kind of wine? I may not find it here. Any replacement?
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
8 Feb 16
Passata usually refers to sieved tomato purée. 'Passata' is an Italian word meaning 'what has passed [through a sieve]' and in recipes refers to 'passata di pomodori' or 'sieved tomato'. If you can't buy tinned sieved tomato, you can use tinned whole or chopped tomatoes and blitz them in a food processor.
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Perhaps I will just add mashed tamatoes inside?
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
8 Feb 16
@youless I have the same problem with some Indian recipes. Although I know a lot of the Indian names for things, there's always something new which I have to look up. Sometimes there are things which just aren't available in this country.
I would have even more problems with a Chinese recipe, even if it were printed in Roman letters, I would not know how to pronounce the words correctly and so I couldn't even ask our friendly local Chinese sopermarket for the ingredients by name!
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@youless (112146)
• Guangzhou, China
8 Feb 16
@owlwings In fact sometimes when I read the Chinese dishes in English, I don't always figure out what they are. As they are not English. They may some words sound like Chinese but sometimes the pronounciation is far from the real Chinese and it is hard for me to understand what it is.
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@celticeagle (159710)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Feb 16
It's a thick tomato paste. A puree as it were.
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@celticeagle (159710)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Feb 16
@youless ...yes, sort of. Probably made the same way.
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