What Albóndigas means
Albóndigas is a Mexican main dish name of Arabic (via Spanish) origin meaning "meatballs". It comes from Arabic al-bunduqa (the hazelnut, a small round thing). It is pronounced al-BON-dee-gas, and it is most associated with the whole country.
One of the Arabic words Spanish carried to Mexico: al-bunduqa, the hazelnut, applied to anything of that size and shape.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.
