flambé

See also: flambe

English edit

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flambé

Wikipedia

Slices of banana being flambéed in a saucepan

Alternative forms edit

flambe

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French flambé.

Adjective edit

flambé (not comparable)

(cooking) Being, or having been, flambéed.
(ceramics, of Chinese porcelain) Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

Derived terms edit

Florida flambe

Translations edit

being or having been flambéed

Finnish: liekitettävä (being), liekitetty (having been)
French: flambé (fr)
Portuguese: flambado (pt)
Swedish: flamberad (sv)

Noun edit

flambé (plural flambés)

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

Translations edit

cooking technique

Finnish: liekitys (fi), flambeeraus (fi)
Indonesian: flambe
Japanese: フランベ (ja) (furanbe)
Polish: flambirowanie (pl) n
Swedish: flambering c

act of flambéing

Finnish: liekitys (fi), flambeeraus (fi)
Swedish: flambering c

flambéed dish

Finnish: liekitetty ruokalaji, flambeerattu ruokalaji (fi)

Verb edit

Bombe Alaska, a variety of baked Alaska that is doused with alcohol and flambéed

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

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.”