Picante sauce

0Yeas, Antonia. Piquant is often used to describe food, particularly if it is a little spicy. 02br
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00This from Webster: 02br
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00"agreeably stimulating to the palate; especially : SPICY" 0-

0 Thank you, but one more question: is the so called picante sauce simply piquant sauce, or does it always imply tomatoes? 0-

0 Hi, I think tomato is always present. 0-

0 I think "picante sauce" refers to a specific sauce (google it, you'll see! there are even low cal recipes), Mexican it seems. 02br
00But a piquante sauce, as Abbie said, means "spicy", and I guess most of the time it will involve tomatoes, though it's not a requirement: mix garlic, basil and olive oil, you'll taste how piquant it can get without tomatoes! 0-

0 Picante sauce is a Mexican sauce. Ingredients include tomatoes, avocado, green onions and such. Picante means hot. 0-

0 Thank you, all 0-

0 Julie, what are green onions? 0-

0 Sorry, I guess not everyone puts green onions in Picante sauce. 02br
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00Green onions are those long green things which you mince and add to your cooking. They are very popular in Chinese cooking. I like them on my steamed fish and salt-baked chicken! 0-

0 Green onions are sometimes called scallions. They look like leeks, but much smaller and thinner, and are usually used raw, chopped, in salads or sprinkled over something as a garnish. Or in picante sauce, which is very similar to salsa, which, in the U.S., is a mexican-style sauce available in jars. 0-

0 And in BrE we call them spring onions 02br
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