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mint sauce

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noun

  1. a sauce made from mint leaves, sugar, and vinegar, usually served with lamb

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Let lamb rest five minutes, serve with mint sauce, peas and baby new potatoes.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019

“We want to board enough choices so that everyone can have their dream dish,” said the Irish chef, whose fantasy in-flight meal is roast leg of lamb with mint sauce.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2015

We do not need food: in many ways, we are food, trainable meat, lambs queueing up to buy mint sauce.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2014

But what pops entirely unbidden into my mind is the leg of lamb he cooked, English-style, with boiled vegetables and mint sauce, for us to eat by the poolside in a high Californian summer.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2011

There stood the fat man with his beaming smile of welcome and surprise, and out of the little parlor came an enticing aroma of roast lamb and mint sauce.

From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton

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