What does “licuar” mean in Spanish?
Verbos básicos para usar en la cocina
A1 Spanish listening practice · Colombian Spanish · Curated for beginners
Licuar literally means “to liquefy,” and in a Latin American kitchen it’s what you do in a licuadora — the blender. Spain reaches for batir instead and calls the machine a batidora. The payoff goes beyond smoothies: that -dora ending names appliances all over the house — lavadora (washing machine), secadora (dryer), aspiradora (vacuum cleaner).
The clip runs through the core kitchen verbs — mezclar (mix), servir (serve), cortar (cut), pelar (peel), licuar, batir (whisk/beat), hervir (boil). Bonus vocabulary: in Mexico a licuado is the blended fruit-and-milk drink itself — order un licuado de plátano at any market juice stand.
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