braise
To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and…To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling.
» She braised the beef short ribs.
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1 sensesTo cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling.
schmoren, anschmoren
туши́тьtušítʹ, потуши́тьpotušítʹ
cook in liquid
Examples
4 sentencesShe braised the beef short ribs.
We're having braised lettuce with salmon today.
Tomatoes are delicious whether you eat them raw, cooked or braised.
Still to come... buttermilk-fried bullfrog legs, braised wild boar with Himalayan blackberry glaze and Asian carp boulettes.
Translations
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Origin
From French braise (“live coals”) and braiser (“to braise”, from the noun), from Old FrencFrom French braise (“live coals”) and braiser (“to braise”, from the noun), from Old French brese (“embers”), from Old Low Franconian/Old Dutch; akin to Norwegian/Swedish braseld (“sparkling fire”), Norwegian/Swedish dialectal brasa (“to roast”), Danish dialectal brase (“to flambé, enflame”). Perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”). See burst.
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Forms
braises, braising, braised, braisedWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.