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haricot

haricot

2 7.9
A bean often eaten as a green bean or a small dried bean
  • noun
  • /ˈhærɪkoʊ/
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  • He had accepted two servings of a cinnamon-laced boar's head soup, accompanied by less exotic helpings of haricots and peas.
  • haricots verts
  • haricot beans
  • French haricots

Examples

  • This was my second approach to cooking the haricot tarbais (tarbais beans).

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  • I make a grilled filet mignon served with haricots verts and roasted potatoes.

  • The west haricots perfect movement to put this back in the financial schedule.

  • I studied some recipes from the site of haricot tarbais itself to understand these beans, then I just put together something on my own.

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  • Smoked Paprika Chicken with Haricot Tarbais & Chorizo

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  • The package of haricot tarbais and piment d'espelette from my friend in France even had my nickname on it.

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  • Some vegetables freeze super well, like French green beans (haricot vert), especially when they're frozen in a bag that allows them to move about instead of a box that can pinch and squeeze.

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  • On vous a gardé du porc aux haricots.

  • A six-ounce center cut, it is served with fingerling potatoes, haricots vert, and béarnaise sauce.

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  • Place haricots verts in boiling water and cook for 1 minute until bright green.

Synonyms

bean
vsharicot
512 1.0

An edible seed or pod from plants like peas and lentils used for food

is narrower and focuses on French cooking and specific small or green varieties
frijole
vsharicot
  • US
3 7.5

A bean used in Mexican and Latin American cooking

is focused on French culinary use rather than Latin American varieties
green bean
vsharicot
  • Indian
1 1.0

A small round seed used in Asian cooking, often dried or soaked

is more about French culinary types not only the mung bean seed
haricot vert
vsharicot
1 9.2

A thin small green bean often served in French food

is broader and also means small dried beans as well as green ones
French bean
vsharicot
  • UK
1 2.1

A long thin green vegetable that people eat cooked or raw

is less specific about pod length and includes small dried varieties too
haricots verts
vsharicot
9.1

Thin green beans often served cooked as a vegetable

is the same meaning but used as the singular or general label
flageolet
vsharicot
  • UK
9.9

A small light green bean used in French cooking

is broader and also refers to fresh green beans as well as dried types

Compounds

1 9.2

A thin small green bean often served in French food

Surface Forms

haricot singular
haricots plural

Etymology

The word haricot comes from French haricot and appears in cooking names like haricots verts, which means 'green beans'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine beans already prepared for a stew or salad, because haricot simply names that kind of bean.