kotlety

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Etymology[edit]

From Russian котле́ты (kotléty), plural of котле́та (kotléta), from French côtelette (cutlet; chop), whence the English doublet cutlet.

Noun[edit]

kotlety pl (plural only)

  1. Meat patties or meatballs made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then seasoned and fried or baked.
    • 1961, Kyra Petrovskaya, Russian Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., published 1992, →ISBN, page 97:
      Beware of the juiciness of kotlety, for many a frock has been ruined by those who cut into their kotlety too vigorously and allowed the hot butter to splatter all over them!
    • 1977, Savella Stechishin, “Breaded Veal Kotlety”, in Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, 9th edition, Winnipeg, Man.: Trident Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 88:
      The following recipe gives very tender kotlety that may be served when entertaining guests.
    • 1994, “Kotlety”, in Ben Collver, compiler, Russian Cooking, Grants Pass Sister City, page 29:
      Melt butter while shaping kotlety patties from the meat mixture.
    • 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 316:
      He mixed the meat from Emile with chopped onion, formed the kotlety, and covered them with a towel.
    • 2016, Larysa Plawan Levycky, chapter XIV, in Destiny, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
      I just happen to know an excellent cafeteria on Elmhurst Street that specializes in delicious kotlety. They serve them with mashed potatoes smothered in brown gravy.
    • 2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 207:
      She turned out to be a gregarious former math teacher from Ukraine, whose town had stopped paying salaries to schoolteachers years earlier, and she cooked a terrific batch of kotlety and mashed potatoes and borscht that would last until she came again three days later. Her kotlety were good, and her borscht was even better.

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Noun[edit]

kotlety

  1. inflection of kotleta:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural