to sauce
- verb
- /sɔs/
- Seafood, poultry, light salads, and lightly sauced pastas are only a few of the many possibilities.
- to sauce pasta
- lightly sauced
- grilled and sauced
Examples
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To make the dish more flavorful, be sure to sauce it with your favorite marinara.
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If you want to impress your guests, sauce the chicken with a rich, creamy sauce.
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We punch the pizza dough down, and it's time to sauce it up.
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My advice to you is to sauce your counters down.
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For a long time, Ada and Ruby ate apples at every meal, fried and stewed and pied and sauced.
Fiction book (1997) -
She made dinners from one animal: ribs floating in soup and tongues cleverly sliced and sauced to look like steak.
Fiction book (1993) -
He loves to sauce the tacos with spicy salsa to add a kick.
Synonyms
To add plant seasonings to food to give it more flavor
To add small pieces of food on top of a dish to make it look nicer
To add spices or herbs to food to make it taste better
To put sauce on food
To put a lot of sauce on food or to use too much of something
To make food taste or look better by adding a small extra ingredient
To add small food items, like herbs or lemon peel, to a dish to make it look nicer
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A spicy red sauce made from ketchup, horseradish, and lemon juice, served with seafood
A creamy sauce made from melted cheese to pour over foods like pasta or vegetables
A sweet, smooth food made by cooking and mashing apples, often with sugar and spices
A spicy, often creamy liquid people make with Indian spices for meat, rice, or vegetables
A dark, tangy sauce made from vinegar and spices used to add savory flavor to food
A creamy white sauce with a sharp taste from grated horseradish root, often served with meat or fish
A cold creamy sauce made from mayonnaise, herbs, and mustard for seafood or salads
A rich Italian topping for pasta made with ground beef, tomatoes, and vegetables
- UK
A creamy white sauce made from bread and flavored with cloves and onion, served with chicken or turkey
A brown sauce made from fried onions, wine or vinegar, and parsley, served with meat
A savory dark sauce made from beef stock thickened with butter and flour and served with roast meat
A dark, salty sauce made with soy sauce and broth and used on Chinese dishes
- Specialized
A rich white sauce made from stock, thickened with egg yolks and cream and flavored with lemon juice
A liquid or paste used in Korean cooking that often contains soy, garlic, and chili
A brown sauce made with fried onions, parsley, and white wine, served with meat or vegetables
- UK
A sweet creamy mix of butter and sugar often flavored with brandy and served with warm pudding
A smooth sauce made from light broth, butter, fried onion, paprika, and cream, served with meat or vegetables
A rich creamy sauce made from lobster butter, cream, and egg yolks, flavored with sherry and served with seafood
- Specialized
A dark brown French mixture for meat made from browned vegetables, beef stock and tomatoes
- US
A creamy sauce of mayonnaise and cream with chopped green pepper and onion, flavored with chili, Worcestershire sauce, and lemon
A white creamy sauce that uses cream and butter made from shrimp, served with seafood
A sauce that tastes hot from spices for dipping food like chicken or dumplings
How Sauced
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sauce as a verb comes from the food word sauce, which goes back to the old Latin word salsus meaning 'salted' and is related to salt. So to sauce food is simply to add flavour or moisture, just like putting a sauce on a dish.