Braise
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative spelling of braze. alt-of, alternative
- 2 Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream)
- 3 A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising.
"Pot roast is typically a braise, as is osso buco."
- 4 A sauce used for braising.
"Braised cabbage is cooked in a braise of sliced bacon, one or two thickly sliced onions, one or two sliced carrots, parsley, thyme, a bay leaf, and stock to nearly cover."
- 1 To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling.
- 2 cook in liquid wordnet
- 3 Alternative spelling of braze (joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal) alt-of, alternative
Example
More examples"Pot roast is typically a braise, as is osso buco."
Etymology
From 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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