sauté

[ soh-tey, saw- ]
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adjective
  1. cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.

verb (used with object),sau·téed [soh-teyd, saw-], /soʊˈteɪd, sɔ-/, sau·té·ing [soh-tey-ing, saw-]. /soʊˈteɪ ɪŋ, sɔ-/.
  1. to cook in a small amount of fat; pan-fry.

noun
  1. a dish of sautéed food.

Origin of sauté

1
1805–15; <French, past participle of sauter to jump (causative: to toss) <Latin saltāre, frequentative of salīre to jump

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How to use sauté in a sentence

  • Pommes de terre sautes may be deemed chaste enough to appear—and disappear—at the same happy moment.

    The Feasts of Autolycus | Elizabeth Robins Pennell

British Dictionary definitions for sauté

sauté

/ (ˈsəʊteɪ) /


verb-tés, -téing, -téeing or -téed
  1. to fry (food) quickly in a little fat

noun
  1. a dish of sautéed food, esp meat that is browned and then cooked in a sauce

adjective
  1. sautéed until lightly brown: sauté potatoes

Origin of sauté

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C19: from French: tossed, from sauter to jump, from Latin saltāre to dance, from salīre to spring

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