Pajata

Quick meaning: Pajata is a noun meaning (uncountable) The jejunum of an unweaned calf (or, rarely, of a young ox) containing chyme, used as food.

Meaning

(uncountable) The jejunum of an unweaned calf (or, rarely, of a young ox) containing chyme, used as food.

More Meanings

1. (countable, cooking) A serving of pasta dressed with the above entrail cooked with onion, lard, parsley, and celery, with the addition of tomato sauce and white wine.

Example Sentences

Eventually the main courses did arrive - I'd asked for 2 cacio e pepe and one pajata, instead 2 pajatas arrived and i had to ask again for a cacio e pepe. The food was good but not what we ordered.

Head to Sartor, a butcher shop in the Testaccio Market. The Sartor family will tie the pajata into tidy rings for you. Grab some onion, tomato sauce, white wine, and rigatoni at a nearby stall and cook the pajata yourself, simmering for about an hour.

Heat a deep, thick bottomed pot with about a quarter cup of olive oil, and as soon as it’s hot add the pajata, with a dusting of salt, the clove, and a dusting of pepper. Brown the Pajata over a gentle flame, gently stirring the rings about lest they form crusts, stick, and break apart.

Reach deep enough into the bowels of Roman cuisine and eventually you'll find … bowels. Pajata is the intestine of a suckling animal, traditionally a calf, still containing partially digested mother's milk. Stewed for pasta, grilled, braised or roasted, pajata exemplifies the Italian concept of tipicità, "typicality," something that helps define a place or people. What mozzarella is to Naples, ragù to Bologna, pajata is to Rome, as much as cacio e pepe or fried artichokes.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paya, keslop, cheeselep, panada, posset, tasajo.

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