refogado

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of refogar.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.foˈɡa.du/ [he.foˈɡa.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.foˈɡa.du/ [he.foˈɡa.du]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁe.foˈɡa.du/ [χe.foˈɡa.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁe.foˈɡa.do/ [he.foˈɡa.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨ.fuˈɡa.du/ [ʁɨ.fuˈɣa.ðu]

• Hyphenation: re‧fo‧ga‧do

Adjective

refogado (feminine refogada, masculine plural refogados, feminine plural refogadas)

1. (of food) fried with oil or butter and seasonings

Noun

refogado m (plural refogados)

1. (cooking) food fried with oil or butter and seasonings

   Synonym: estrugido

2. (Brazil) sofrito

Usage notes

Estrugido is chiefly used in the North of Portugal, whereas refogado is chiefly used in the South.

Participle

refogado (feminine refogada, masculine plural refogados, feminine plural refogadas)

1. past participle of refogar

Further reading

• 2003 September 10, Maria Kijac, The South American Table: The Flavor and Soul of Authentic Home Cooking from Patagonia to Rio de Janeiro, With 450 Recipes, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN:

  In Brazil, sofrito is called refogado, and in Bolivia ahogado or rehogado. Its origin goes back to the Iberian Peninsula, where hundreds of years ago, a very simple sofrito was […]

• 2023 October 3, Sandra A. Gutierrez, Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America: A Cookbook, Knopf, →ISBN, page 19:

  ... sofrito (sofregit) is found in the medieval Book of Sent Sovi, from Catalonia, Spain. [... It is] refogado in Brazil; and recado and recao criollo in the Latin Caribbean. Some sofritos are smooth and velvety […]