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kotleta

kotleta noun: a meat patty or meatball made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then seasoned and fried or baked.

kotleta: a meat patty or meatball made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then...
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Noun

kotleta (countable and uncountable, plural kotlety or kotleti or kotletas)

  1. A meat patty or meatball made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then seasoned and fried or baked.
    • Take up the kotleti and place them on a hot platter. Strain the sauce, which may be poured over the kotleti or served separately.1947, Alexandra Kropotkin, How to Cook and Eat in Russian, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 151
    • Beware of the juiciness of kotlety, for many a frock has been ruined by those who cut into their kotlety too vigorously and allowed the hot butter to splatter all over them!1961, Kyra Petrovskaya, Russian Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., published 1992, →ISBN, page 97

Examples of kotleta in a sentence

  • Also, he brown-bags at work, usually taking Mom’s kotletas — ground veal or chicken patties.1991 November 7, Alan Sverdlik, “Soviet: Multicultural specialties as varied as the landscape”, in The Atlanta Journal, volume 109, number...
  • Church President Lore Stefy said the sisterhood of the church as well as all of the parishioners have prepared many traditional ethnic foods and desserts, including kotleta, pyrachki and pierogies.2005 January 14, Lucia Drake, “Head of Russian Orthodox Church to visit tiny church in Mays Landing”, in The Press of Atlantic City, volume...
  • Join Russian-born Nina Scroggins and explore delicious dishes including borscht, varenkies and kotletas.2009 January 27, “Morsels”, in The Gazette, volume 127, number 18, Cedar Rapids, Ia., page 2D, column 3:
  • Kotletas and bitochki used the same basic ingredients and differed only in shape (kotletas were oval and flat, bitochki rounder and plumper).2015, Olga Syutkin, Pavel Syutkin, translated by Ast A. Moore, CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine, London: Fuel Design &...

Forms of kotleta

pluralkotlety
pluralkotleti
pluralkotletas

Origin of kotleta

From Russian котле́та (kotléta), from French côtelette (“cutlet; chop”), whence the English doublet cutlet; also a doublet of kotlet via Polish.

Questions about kotleta

What does kotleta mean?
Kotleta means a meat patty or meatball made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then seasoned and fried or baked.
How do you use kotleta in a sentence?
Also, he brown-bags at work, usually taking Mom’s kotletas — ground veal or chicken patties.
What part of speech is kotleta?
Kotleta is a noun.
What is the plural of kotleta?
The plural of kotleta is kotlety.

Words near kotleta in the dictionary

  1. kotjebis
  2. Kotka
  3. Kotler
  4. Kotlers
  5. kotlet
  6. kotleta
  7. kotletas
  8. kotleti
  9. kotlety
  10. Kotlin
  11. kotlovina

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