quenelle
French Cooking. a dumpling of finely chopped fish or meat that is poached in water or stock and usually served with a sauce.
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How to use quenelle in a sentence
The First Amendment would never prohibit the quenelle, regardless of its symbolic meaning.
Stir a gill of cream to the quenelle meat, then use enough of the spinach to give it a fine light-green color.
Choice Cookery | Catherine OwenPut some very light chicken force meat (quenelle) in small round buttered timbale moulds, and cook in bain-marie (double boiler).
The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book | Victor HirtzlerLa quenelle was by no means disconcerted, and he put the belt on himself in order to show me how it was used.
My Double Life | Sarah Bernhardt
British Dictionary definitions for quenelle
/ (kəˈnɛl) /
a finely sieved mixture of cooked meat or fish, shaped into various forms and cooked in stock or fried as croquettes
Origin of quenelle
1Collins 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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