flambé

See also flambe

English

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Alternative forms

• flambe

Etymology

From French

Adjective

flambé (not comparable)

1. Being, or having been, flambéed.

Translations

being or having been flambéed

• Finnish: liekitettävä (fi) (being), liekitetty (fi) (having been)

Noun

flambé (plural flambés)

1. (cooking) A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
2. The act of flambéing.
3. A flambéed dish.

Translations

cooking technique

• Finnish: liekitys (fi), flambeeraus (fi)

act of flambéing

• Finnish: liekitys (fi), flambeeraus (fi)

flambéed dish

• Finnish: liekitetty ruokalaji (fi), flambeerattu ruokalaji (fi)

Verb

flambé (third-person singular simple present flambés, present participle flambéing, simple past and past participle flambéed)

1. To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

   "Flambé the dessert", ordered the Chef, "but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off."

Translations

to add and ignite alcohol to food

• Czech: flambovat (cs)
• Danish: flambere (da)
• Finnish: liekittää (fi), flambeerata (fi)
• French: flamber (fr)

• German: flambieren (de)
• Hungarian: flambíroz (hu)
• Swedish: flambera (sv)

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French

Verb

flambé m (feminine flambée, masculine plural flambés, feminine plural flambées)

1. Past participle of flamber