Glossary C
Deutsch: Eintopf / Español: Cocido / Português: Cozido / Français: Pot-au-feu / Italiano: Stufato /
Cozido refers to a Portuguese cooking term which means "boiled" or "steamed". In Portugal, Cozido also refers to "stew", examples of Portugal's popular Cozidos are: Arroz de Cozido. Dobradinha (tripe stew), and Cozido à Portuguesa, among many others.
Cozido à Portuguesa refers to one of the common meat dish from Portugal which is a sort of hot pot of beef, sausages, potatoes, vegetables and rice. Cozido à Portuguesa originated from the Beira region of Portugal and it is cooked using pork and beef and in some areas in Portugal, chicken is also added together with varieties of vegetables like carrots, cabbages and turnip. Usually, Portuguese sausages like Chourico, Farinheira and Morcela and also potatoes and rice are also used as supplements along with the Cozido preparation.
Cozido is more popular in Spain and is a prominent part of the Spanish diet, however, it initially evolved in the Portuguese terrain and therefore has continued to remain a well loved delicacy among the people of Portugal.
Cozonac refers to Romania's traditional holiday sweet bread filled with walnuts, poppy seeds or cream cheese. Cozonac which is a cake prepared during Christmas or Easter is a yeast cake, bread shaped, with milk, sugar, eggs butter and different fillings depending on the cook or bakers, such as raisins, nuts, cocoa, etc.
On Christmas and Easter, many Romanian families reserved the traditional menu of this meal (Cozonac) for these 2 holidays, but in present-day Romanian, families sometimes eat it as a breakfast bread, similar to a muffins.
Deutsch: Krabbe
A Crab is a decapod crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen), usually entirely hidden under the thorax. Crabs live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws.