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gribiche

gribiche noun: a mayonnaise-style cold egg sauce of French origin, made by emulsifying hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard with a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed.

Noun

gribiche (uncountable)

  1. A mayonnaise-style cold egg sauce of French origin, made by emulsifying hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard with a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed.
    • Spoon some gribiche onto each egg and around the plates.2008, Rick Moonen, Roy Finamore, Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion, page 97
    • Presiding over a modest open kitchen, Mr. Trolf, often in casual shirts and a chef’s apron, performs nightly (except Tuesdays), sharing recipes and stories with patrons as he drizzles a briny gribiche sauce on fennel-powdered sea scallops, or meticulously slices a dry-aged rib-eye steak.2015 August 28, Susan M. Novick, “Restaurant Review: Lost & Found in Long Beach Has a Chef Who Goes for the Flavor Bomb”, in New York Times

Origin of gribiche

Unadapted borrowing from French gribiche

Questions about gribiche

What does gribiche mean?
Gribiche means a mayonnaise-style cold egg sauce of French origin, made by emulsifying hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard with a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed.
What part of speech is gribiche?
Gribiche is a noun.

Words near gribiche in the dictionary

  1. gribble
  2. gribbles
  3. Gribbon
  4. gribenes
  5. Gribetz
  6. gribiche
  7. grice
  8. Gricean
  9. Gricean maxims
  10. griced
  11. griceite

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