champurrado
Plural: champurrados
Language: Spanish
Description: A chocolate flavoured atole made with milk and/or water, thickened with masa harina (cornflour (US: corn starch) treated with lime) and boiled to make a kind of thin gruel. It can be served either hot or cold but is usually served warm.
Pronounced: sham-poo-RAH-doh
Ethnicity: Latin American, Mexican, Spanish
Most frequent country: Latin America, Mexico, Spain
See places: Spanish food and cuisine, Mexican food and cuisine
See foods and dishes: atole, masa harina
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