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How do Puerto Ricans pronounce empanadas?

In Puerto Rico what you may call empanadas we call empanadillas because of empanadas references something that is breaded and fried, think chicken fried steak.

How do you pronounce empanadas?

Does empanada have a tilde?

6) Empanada: Another popular Spanish dish, the word Empanada should be pronounced as em-pa-na-da. Given the similarity to the butchered word above, people mistakenly utilize the same phonetic application as that the tilde gives to Jalapeño and pronounce it as emp-pan-yada.

What is an empanada in English?

An empanada is a type of baked or fried turnover consisting of pastry and filling, common in Southern European, Latin American, and the Philippines cultures. The name comes from the Galician verb empanar, and translates as “enbreaded”, that is, wrapped or coated in bread.

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