filet de boeuf en croute

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A piece of beef cooked rare, covered in mushroom paste and wrapped in pastry

noun
/fɪˈleɪ də bɜːf ɑ̃ ˈkruːt/

: filete de ternera en costra

He ordered the filet de boeuf en croute for his birthday dinner at the upscale restaurant.

Examples

At the cooking class, we learned how to prepare a classic filet de boeuf en croute from scratch.
The recipe for filet de boeuf en croute requires careful preparation of the pastry and mushroom paste.
The chef prepared a delicious filet de boeuf en croute for dinner.
Have you ever tried filet de boeuf en croute at a French restaurant?
He ordered the filet de boeuf en croute for his birthday dinner at the upscale restaurant.
At the cooking class, we learned how to prepare a classic filet de boeuf en croute from scratch.
The recipe for filet de boeuf en croute requires careful preparation of the pastry and mushroom paste.

Synonyms

beef Wellington

vsfilet de boeuf en croute

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A cut of beef covered with cooked mushrooms, wrapped in puff pastry and baked

is the same dish named with a different language term

Surface Forms

filet de boeuf en croute singular

filets de boeuf en croute plural

Morphology

filet + de + boeuf + en + croute

The phrase decomposes straightforwardly as 'filet' (boneless piece of meat) + 'de boeuf' (of beef) + 'en croute' (in a crust/pastry), so its meaning (beef fillet wrapped in pastry and baked) is directly recoverable from the constituents. Although the items are French, the composition mirrors ordinary English ‘X of Y in/under a crust’ patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a learner who knows each word would understand the dish.

Etymology

Filet de boeuf en croute comes from French cooking and the words show the picture: filet means 'tender piece', de boeuf means 'of beef', and en croute means 'in a pastry crust'. Chefs wrapped rare beef in pastry to keep it juicy and make it look special, so today the name means 'beef fillet baked in pastry'.