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  • noun Alternative spelling of papadom.

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Examples

  • Filling out the elegant plate are shards of papadum, the crackery Indian bread made from lentil flour.

    Tom Sietsema on the Atlas Room: Two-chef restaurant lives up to name 2011

  • Daily, Tiffin Wallah offers three curries and rices, plus dessert, salad, soup and the usual accompaniments of papadum, chapati, pickles and chutney.

    Indian, Veggie, Kosher 2010

  • I think I'm pretty good, too, but how he was able to deduce that from a single take-out review and a brief meeting when I was more focused on making sure my papadum arrived with onion chutney, I can't say.

    Instant Immortality Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • Anatomy of a Sri Lankan buffet plate (clockwise from the papadum): leeks, dhal, eggplant, chicken curry, potato, bitter gourd, coconut sambol, goat curry, and kingfish curry; mango and pineapple chutney, yellow rice (center).

    The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka The MTA Dining Car 2010

  • Anatomy of a Sri Lankan buffet plate (clockwise from the papadum): leeks, dhal, eggplant, chicken curry, potato, bitter gourd, coconut sambol, goat curry, and kingfish curry; mango and pineapple chutney, yellow rice (center).

    The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka 2009

  • The papad or papadum can make every meal special (pulao and papad happens to be a particularly well-loved combination).

    Archive 2007-05-01 Nupur 2007

  • Indian cuisine has a crisp with dinner -- a papadum -- but we just use Lay's Kettle chips or Miss Vickie's Simply Sea Salt or Jalapeño.

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  • Both the main-course halibut and the appetizer shrimp kebabs (recipe online) can be teamed with the cooling raita (a yogurt-based sauce) and spicy chutney (recipe online), which also make good sandwich spreads and dips for papadum, a crispy Indian flatbread.

    Indian Heat for Halibut 2007

  • Afterward, we drove down Weaver Street to the Really Really Free Market, but all we picked up was Soy, Not "Oi!" compiled by the Hippycore Krewe (AK Press) and a papadum (though it wasn't really papadum).

    carrboro book fair jlundberg 2006

  • The rice was perfectly cooked and the papadum and mango chutney were a nice accompaniment.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

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