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🍲 A saucy meat dish 🥩 Grilled meat pieces
grillades

grillades

9.7
Thin slices of beef or pork browned and cooked slowly in a sauce, often served with grits
  • noun
  • /ɡrɪˈlɑːdz/
  • US
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  • The chef prepared traditional grillades using thin slices of pork simmered in a spicy tomato sauce.

Examples

  • The chef prepared delicious grillades for dinner.

  • Many families in Louisiana enjoy grillades as a comforting breakfast or dinner dish.

  • For Sunday brunch, we ordered grillades and grits at a famous New Orleans restaurant.

  • I love grillades with a side of grits.

  • At the diner, I ordered the grillades with a side of creamy grits for breakfast.

  • The chef prepared delicious grillades simmered in a rich tomato sauce, perfect over rice.

  • For a traditional Southern meal, serve grillades with buttery grits and collard greens.

Surface Forms

grillade singular
grillades plural

Etymology

Grillades comes from the French word griller, which means 'to grill'. In Louisiana Creole cooking that French word became the name for a dish of thin meat slices browned and then simmered, so the word now names that comforting meal often served with grits.