kutsinta
kutsintâ with stress marks
brown rice cake
Usage Note
Kutsinta is a chewy, jelly-like orange-brown rice cake typically topped with freshly grated coconut or cheese. It is a popular Filipino snack (merienda) often sold alongside other traditional delicacies like puto and pichi-pichi.
Examples
" Masarap ang kutsinta. "
Natural Translation
The rice cake is delicious.
Literal Translation
Delicious the brown-rice-cake.
" Ang kutsinta ay matamis. "
Natural Translation
The brown rice cake is sweet.
Literal Translation
The brown rice cake is sweet.
" Tuwing piyesta, gumagawa ang lola ng kutsinta na binubudburan ng kinayod na niyog bago ihain sa mga bisita. "
Natural Translation
Every fiesta, grandma makes kutsinta sprinkled with grated coconut before serving it to the guests.
Literal Translation
Every fiesta, making the grandmother of brown-rice-cake that sprinkled with grated coconut before to-serve to the guests.
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