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red-cooking

red-cooking is the present participle and gerund of red-cook.

Meaning of red-cook

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

Questions about red-cooking

What is red-cooking the present participle and gerund of?
Red-cooking is the present participle and gerund of red-cook.

Words near red-cooking in the dictionary

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

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