stewed

1 1.4

Cooked slowly in liquid with vegetables and spices

adjective
/stjuːd/

: estofado

OK, this was stewed goat and jollof rice.

Examples

We've taken muskrat stewed meat and we have made noodles out of muskrat stewed meat.
I am not so stewed that I can't find the farm next door.

An American Haunting (2005)
OK, this was stewed goat and jollof rice.
And then I've got stewed tomatoes with Maple syrup.
The phrase stewed prune sounds mildly entertaining to us, but we don't split our sides laughing.
The chef prepared stewed vegetables with a rich sauce for dinner.
She served a bowl of stewed apples topped with cinnamon and sugar.
On a cold day, nothing is better than a warm bowl of stewed meat and vegetables.

Synonyms

cooked

vsstewed

1 1.0

Food that is heated until ready to eat

is specifically slow wet cooking often with vegetables and seasonings

braised

vsstewed

Specialized

3.9

Cooked slowly after first being browned in oil in a covered pan

focuses on slow cooking in liquid, often water, with vegetables and seasonings

How Cooked

burned

1.0

overdone

1 2.9

stewed

1 1.4

cooked

1 1.0

underdone

2 3.8

raw

353 1.0

Surface Forms

stewed positive

Morphology

stewed = stew (transparent) = stew + ed

Meaning is directly and predictably derived from the verb stew by the past-participle/adjectival suffix -ed.

Etymology

Stewed comes from an old French word estuver that meant 'to bathe in hot water or steam', so you can think of stewed food as taking a long, slow bath in liquid until it becomes soft and full of flavor.