kotlety
English edit
Alternative forms edit
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)
- 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.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kotlety
- inflection of kotleta: