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gratin

gratin

8 4.4
A baked dish with a browned crust of cheese or breadcrumbs
  • noun
  • /ˈɡrætən/
translation icon : gratinado
  • Father, please pass the au gratin potatoes.
  • potato gratin
  • au gratin
  • cheese gratin

Examples

  • Shafer Farm's venison loin with parsnip gratin and onion confit.

  • My favorite appetizer was the mushroom and bone marrow gratin.

    Blog text (29)
  • Yellow Squash and Corn Gratin

    Blog text (23)
  • We have broccoli au gratin, but it's good.

  • The gratin should be accurately seasoned before baking; otherwise, the dish will taste flat.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Um, ham and beans au gratin with peas.

  • The butler took his dinner up to him, a dinner consisting of roast chicken, roast potatoes, and cauliflower Au gratin.

  • She had cut beans and baked beans, potatoes au gratin, as well as a rice dish, a compote with fruit, and three kinds of cake.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • He has recently sampled Lowell's preparation of baked mango gratin, usually served as an accompaniment to chicken or fish, at the home of a friend who prepared it from Lowell's newest cookbook.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Father, please pass the gratin potatoes.

Compounds

4 6.3

Covered with browned breadcrumbs and cheese and baked until golden

Surface Forms

gratin singular
gratins plural

Etymology

Gratin comes from the French verb gratiner, from a word meaning 'to scrape' or 'to grate' and is like the English word grate. That's why a gratin is a baked dish with a crispy, browned top, often made by grating cheese or adding breadcrumbs and baking until golden.