sauté

See also: saute

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sauté, past participle of sauter, to jump, in cooking, diced onions jump in the pan from the hot oil, resembling a ballet dancer performing a "saute".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊteɪ/
• enPR: sōtāʹ, IPA^(key): /soʊˈteɪ/, /sɔˈteɪ/

Verb

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

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.

Translations

to cook food

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嫩煎 (nènjiān) (meat, fish, beancurd), 煎炒 (zh) (jiānchǎo), 炒 (zh) (chǎo) (also means stir-fry)

• Finnish: käristää (fi); kuullottaa (fi), freesata (fi)
• French: sauter (fr)
• Galician: refogar, rustrir
• Irish: sótáil
• Italian: saltare (it), rosolare (it)
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• Japanese: 炒める (ja) (いためる, itameru), ソテー (ja) (sotē)
• Marathi: सॉटे करणे (sǒṭe karṇe)
• Portuguese: refogar (pt), saltear
• Russian: жа́рить в ма́сле impf (žáritʹ v másle)
• Spanish: rehogar (es)
• Swedish: sautera

Noun

sauté (plural sautés)

1. A dish prepared this way.

Translations

dish

• Finnish: käristys (fi)
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• Galician: rustrido m, refrito m
• Italian: saltata (it)

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French

Verb

sauté (feminine sautée, masculine plural sautés, feminine plural sautées)

1. past participle of sauter