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🍗 A crunchy coating 🍗 To coat with crumbs
breading

breading

2 1.6
A dry coating for food made from breadcrumbs or flour before cooking
  • noun
  • /ˈbrɛdɪŋ/
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  • Put the fryer away, get the breading off the cheese, and get rid of anything white (potatoes, rice, white bread).
  • a layer of breading
  • Breading mix

I'm nervous because people recommended these to me, but then after the fact I saw people saying that these were actually nasty and that the breading was sweet.

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Examples

  • The squirrel, on the other hand, had a rich, nutty quality that made the meat stand out over the breading and the syrup.

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  • A lot of breading, a lot of filler.

  • The breading is throwing me off because was the breading added by us?

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  • I thought it was too brined, too salty, and didn't like the breading at all.

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  • Seriously, there is already an abundance of carbs in the bulghur, the chickpeas, and the breading on the eggplant... why are they also serving risotto?

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  • It wasn't enough to save the chicken; however, which, though crispy and golden brown, was caked with far too much breading, surrounding tiny bits of chicken.

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  • They eat three meals per day; they only eat non-paleo at school, and even then they avoid grain if they possibly can (they peel the breading off the corn dogs, etc.).

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  • The chef prepared the chicken by applying a generous layer of breading before frying it.

  • Before baking, she coated the zucchini sticks in a light breading to ensure they would be crispy.

  • After mixing the spices into the breading, he started coating the fish fillets for frying.

Synonyms

crumb
vsbreading
96 1.0

A very small piece of bread, cake, or other baked food

is a prepared coating mixture or layer rather than an accidental fragment
breadcrumb
vsbreading
11 2.4

Small pieces of dry bread that you put on food before cooking

is a blended dry mixture applied as a coating layer before cooking
breadcrumb topping
vsbreading
3.4

A crunchy layer of breadcrumbs mixed with butter on top of a baked dish

is used mainly as a coating before cooking rather than a finishing layer

How Thick

crust
91 1.1
breading
2 1.6
coating
35 3.4

Surface Forms

breading singular
breadings plural

Morphology

breading = bread (transparent) = bread + ing

Derived from the verb 'bread' with the gerund/agentive suffix '-ing'; the meaning (the coating or the act) is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

The word breading comes from bread, because cooks used small pieces of bread called 'breadcrumbs' to cover food and make a crunchy crust. That's why breading means the dry crumbs or the crusty layer they form on food.