What Longaniza means
Longaniza is a Mexican ingredient name of Spanish origin meaning "long sausage". It comes from Latin lucanica (sausage of Lucania), through Spanish. It is pronounced lon-gah-NEE-sah, and it is most associated with Yucatán.
Named in Roman times for the region of Lucania, then reshaped in Spanish under the pull of largo, long. Valladolid in Yucatán has the best-known Mexican version.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The words that appear inside dish names: the chiles (ancho, guajillo, pasilla, chipotle), the corn words (nixtamal, masa, tortilla, elote), and the tools (comal, molcajete, metate). Learn these and most menu items decode themselves.
