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concassé

concassé noun: food (fish, fruit, vegetables, etc) that has been coarsely chopped or cut into large pieces.

Noun

concassé (countable and uncountable, plural concassés)

  1. Food (fish, fruit, vegetables, etc) that has been coarsely chopped or cut into large pieces.
    • Spoon the concassé over the arugula, leaving a bit of green showing around the edge. Set aside.1999, The Gardeners' Community Cookbook, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 74
    • This is a great make - ahead dessert because both the crème caramel and the concassé (a coarsely chopped mixture) need to chill for at least four hours. Basil adds an interesting, fresh flavor to the concassé.2006, Anne C. Chappell, The All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookboook: The Ultimate Guide from America's #1 Food Magazine, page 168

Verb

concassé (third-person singular simple present concassés, present participle concassing, simple past and past participle concasséd)

  1. To roughly chop or cut (a tomato) into pieces after removing its seeds/core and skin.
    • Blanch, refresh, peel and concassé the tomatoes. Blanch the peas in boiling salted water and refresh quickly in iced water. […]2007, Gary Hunter, Terry Tinton, Patrick Carey, Stephen Walpole, Professional Chef - Level 2 - S/NVQ, Cengage Learning EMEA, →ISBN

Forms of concassé

Noun
pluralconcassés
alternative formconcasse
Verb
third-person singular presentconcassés
present participleconcassing
past participleconcasséd
pastconcasséd

Origin of concassé

From French concassé (“diced; ground; reduced to small(er) pieces”).

Questions about concassé

What does concassé mean?
Concassé means food (fish, fruit, vegetables, etc) that has been coarsely chopped or cut into large pieces.
What part of speech is concassé?
Concassé can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of concassé?
The plural of concassé is concassés.

Words near concassé in the dictionary

  1. Concannons
  2. concasse
  3. concassed
  4. concasses
  5. concassing
  6. concassé
  7. concasséd
  8. concassés
  9. concat
  10. concatamer
  11. concatameric

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