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sautés

sautés is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sauté.

Meaning of sauté

Verb

sauté (third-person singular simple present sautés, present participle sautéing, simple past and past participle sautéed or sautéd)

  1. (transitive) To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks.
    • Parboil three-fourths cup carrot, cut in strips, fifteen minutes; drain, and sauté in one tablespoon bacon fat to which has been added one tablespoon finely chopped onion.[…]Cook until potatoes are soft, then add twelve small onions cooked until soft, then drained and sautéd in two tablespoons...1906, Fannie Merritt Farmer, “Lamb and Mutton”, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, section “Lamb en Casserole”, page 220

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Phrases with sautés

Questions about sautés

What is sautés the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sautés is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sauté.

Words near sautés in the dictionary

  1. sautéed potatoes
  2. sautéed up
  3. sautéeing
  4. sautéing
  5. sautéing up
  6. sautés
  7. sautés up
  8. Sauvage
  9. Sauvageau
  10. Sauvageaus
  11. sauvagine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sautés (page history and authors); sauté (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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