gratinée

English

Alternative forms

• gratinee

Noun

gratinée (plural gratinées)

1. Synonym of gratin
   • 2006, Milwaukee Magazine - Volume 31, Issues 7-12, page 108:

     A heavy mushroom cream sauce spooned over French bread, the gratinée was like bonbons with a glass of Dom Perignon.

   • 2011, Jacques Pépin, Essential Pépin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food, →ISBN:

     With a ladle, make a hole in the top of the gratinée, pour in the port mixture, and fold into the soup with the ladle.

Verb

gratinée (third-person singular simple present gratinée, present participle d, simple past and past participle gratinéed)

1. To bake a dish so that it has a gratinée (crust) on top.
   • 2015, Susan Volland, Mastering Sauces, →ISBN:

     To bake a dish until it bubbles and browns is to gratinée it, or to serve it au gratin.

Adjective

gratinée (not comparable)

1. Cooked with a gratinée (crust) on top.
   • 2011, Margaret Fulton, Margaret Fulton’s Favourites, →ISBN, page 24:

     When I was living with my sister Jean on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales we would often turn the soup into a more substantial meal in cold weather by cooking it in gratinée form, which to many is the real French onion soup.

Adverb

gratinée (not comparable)

1. With a gratinée (crust) on top.
   • 2012, Jacques Pépin, Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques Sampler, →ISBN:

     Onion soup is widely served all over France, sometimes gratinée, that is with a crust on top, sometimes just as a broth. It can be served in a large terrine, as well as in individual crock pots. In a brasserie or bistro, it is usually served gratinée.

Anagrams

• argentei, enargite

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French

Verb

gratinée

1. feminine singular of the past participle of gratiner

Anagrams

• érigeant
• gênerait, générait
• géraient