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Plasa refers to Gambia's food which consists of meat and smoked fish, cooked in palm oil with leafy vegetables. Plasa is usually served with Fou-Fou, which is trashed up cassava.
Pristiños con Miel refer to the most typical christmas desserts from Ecuador. During Christmas in Ecuador, Pristiños con Miel can be found in almost all homes, even the poorer ones, everybody must have the Pristiños in their Christmas table. Pristiños con Miel are a sort of fried cookies, dipped in honey.
Pirozhki refers to Russian traditional food which is described as small buns that contains varieties of fillings which are baked or fried. Pirozhki is probably the Russian counterpart of pie. They come both in sweet and savoury, with fillings varying from stewed apples and fresh fruit to cottage cheese, vegetables, boiled eggs, fish and meat.
Pirozhki get their common golden appearance from an egg glaze before they are cooked. Greeks and Latvians also have their own version of Pirozhki.
Pounded Iyan is another name of Pounded Yam . The Yoruba word for "Pounded Yam".
Yoruba is the dialect of the Yoruba, a West African ethnic group.
Pho Chay refers to vegetarian Pho or a meatless Vietnamese soup or noodle dish.
Pho is the well-known Vietnamese rice noodle dish. The authentic version has its broth made using beef or chicken bones, then served together with various kinds of beef or chicken meats. The noodle dish is essentially a meat-based dish. In the words of Asian cookbook author Corinne Trang, pho is really two separate dishes in one: the broth, and the noodle with its ingredients. It would take good skills and experience to create imitation pho, which is exactly what vegetarian pho is.
A real and completely vegetarian pho is made entirely from vegetables. Instead of using meats and bones, the broth depends entirely on vegetable ingredients such as leeks, wheat gluten (mock beef, chicken, etc.,) tofu and mushrooms for flavors and textures. Important pho ingredients are definitely retained to keep the pho flavors, and as long as they are not meat-based. These include onion, star anise, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and the likes. Vegan or not, pho would not be pho without these ingredients to give pho its unique aroma.