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🍗 A crunchy coating 🍗 To coat with crumbs
to breading

to breading

2.8
To coat food with breadcrumbs or flour before cooking
  • verb
  • /ˈbrɛdɪŋ/
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  • The chef demonstrated the technique of breading vegetables for a crispy coating.

Examples

  • She is breading the chicken in a mixture of breadcrumbs and spices before frying.

  • After breading the fish with flour, he placed it in the hot oil to cook.

  • Thanks Gosh, thanks for breading these guys.

Synonyms

dredging
vsto breading
1 4.6

A light coating of flour or breadcrumbs on food before cooking

applies a fuller coating rather than a light dusting

How Thick

to breading
2.8
coating
35 3.4
dredging
1 4.6
sprinkling
5 2.5

Surface Forms

breading infinitive
breaded past
breaded past participle
breading present participle
breads third person singular

Morphology

breading = bread (transparent) = bread + ing

Present-participle/gerund formation from the verb 'bread' with the productive suffix '-ing', yielding the action 'coating with breadcrumbs'.

Etymology

The word breading comes from bread, since cooks cover food with small pieces of bread called 'breadcrumbs' before cooking to make a crunchy crust. That's why to bread or be breading something means 'to coat' it with dry crumbs before you cook it.