slaphakskeentjies, noun
- Forms:
- Also slaphaksteentjies.
- Plurals:
- unchanged.
a. plural noun Onions cooked in a sauce, served as a salad.
1990 Style July 18A buffet of hors d’oeuvres made up of dishes which sing with the robust flavours of traditional Cape food: smoked snoek and moskonfyt, fragrant pickled fish, marinated mushrooms, mussels and calamari — and slaphaksteentjies, those delicious little baked onions.
b. noncount. Onion salad.
1978 M. Van Biljon in Sunday Times 24 Dec. (Mag. Sect.) 1Salads, beetroot, tomato..and ‘slaphakskeentjies’ which, for those who don’t know, is a salad of small onions in a sweet-sour sauce.
Onions cooked in a sauce, served as a salad.
Onion salad.
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