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🍄 An edible fungus 🍫 A chocolate sweet 🧑‍🍳 To flavor food 🐕 To hunt truffles
to truffle

to truffle

1 8.2
To put small pieces of a strong smelling underground mushroom into food to give flavor
  • verb
  • /ˈtrʌfəl/
translation icon : añadir trufa a
  • For dinner, I truffled the pasta with a generous portion of rich truffle oil.
  • truffled cheese
  • truffled risotto
  • truffled potatoes

Examples

  • The chef truffled the risotto by adding shaved truffles to enhance its flavor.

  • This might seem weird to you, but this white boy is going to truffle his way to White Truffle.

  • How is it we finally got our mains and I truffle pasta?

  • And not that I need to eat truffled lobster every day, I just like good food, cooking, and talking about it.

    Blog text (29)

  • It's rack of lamb with truffled ragout.

    Compulsion (2013)

  • followed by shrimp and aspic and then truffled grouse.

    The Whoopee Boys (1986)

  • Now, with rack of lamb with truffled ragout, you're gonna want to have your butcher french the bones.

    Compulsion (2013)

  • At the gourmet restaurant, they truffled the mashed potatoes, giving them an incredible aroma and taste.

Synonyms

to spice
vsto truffle
15 2.3

To add plant seasonings to food to give it more flavor

uses a single special ingredient rather than many varied seasonings
to spice up
vsto truffle
2 2.8

To add spices or herbs to food to make it taste better

uses a single special ingredient rather than general herbs or seasonings

Compounds

chocolate truffle
2 2.7

A small, rich chocolate sweet with a soft, creamy centre

false truffle
9.6

An underground fungus that looks like a real truffle but is a different kind

How Strong

to infuse
19 4.1
to truffle
1 8.2
to season
43 1.7
to flavor
  • US
73 1.9

Surface Forms

truffle infinitive
truffled past
truffled past participle
truffling present participle
truffles third person singular

Etymology

Truffle as a verb comes from the noun truffle, the fungus, and means to add truffle or truffle flavor to a dish, often by shaving or mixing them in.