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red-cook

red-cook verb: to braise (food) with a Chinese slow cooking technique that imparts a reddish-brown colour to the food.

Verb

red-cook (third-person singular simple present red-cooks, present participle red-cooking, simple past and past participle red-cooked)

  1. (transitive) To braise (food) with a Chinese slow cooking technique that imparts a reddish-brown colour to the food.
    • We often stuff seasoned ground meat inside it like stuffed cucumber and then red-cook the whole thing.2011, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Fermented Black Soybeans (165 B. C. To 2011), page 117

Forms of red-cook

third-person singular presentred-cooks
present participlered-cooking
past participlered-cooked
pastred-cooked

Questions about red-cook

What does red-cook mean?
Red-cook means to braise (food) with a Chinese slow cooking technique that imparts a reddish-brown colour to the food.
What part of speech is red-cook?
Red-cook is a verb.
What is the past tense of red-cook?
The past tense of red-cook is red-cooked.

Words near red-cook in the dictionary

  1. red-cockaded woodpeckers
  2. red-collared lorikeet
  3. red-collared lorikeets
  4. red-collared widowbird
  5. red-collared widowbirds
  6. red-cook
  7. red-cooked
  8. red-cooking
  9. red-cooks
  10. red-crested pochard
  11. red-crested pochards

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