flanken

American  

[flahng-kuhn] / ˈflɑŋ kən /

noun

1. a strip of meat from the front end of the short ribs of beef.

2. Jewish Cooking. a dish of this meat boiled and often served with horseradish or a horseradish-flavored sauce.

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Etymology

Origin of flanken

First recorded in 1945–50; from Yiddish, plural of flank, from German or directly from French or Old French; flank

Example Sentences

Like Debbie I used flanken, but basically any cut with short ribs will do, as will high-quality beef stew meat.

From New York Times

When I asked Debbie why her dish tasted so good, she said that she makes it just the way her mother did, with only three ingredients: carrots, sweet potatoes and flanken, the German and Yiddish term for the chuck short ribs cut from the first five ribs, which are leaner and better for braising than plate short ribs.

From New York Times

And somehow, when I find a good one, I’m happy, the way split-pea soup makes me happy, or memories of my mother’s flanken, which I have not sullied by trying to make myself.

From New York Times

I remember her sitting at the table, eating flanken unmolested with the hardcover standing up on its own, forming an angled force field around her while our mother interrogated my “Baby-Sitters Club” book, whose cover featured a boy sitter named Logan.

From New York Times

Overweight and overwrought, Jewish enough to have flanken for dinner and speak a smattering of Yiddish at home, Friedman does civil, not criminal, law, and he's so good at it he makes old women in wheelchairs cry.

From Los Angeles Times