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🥣 A sweet-sour sauce 🍬 Sweet and sour
agrodolce

agrodolce

1 8.8
A sweet and sour Italian sauce used on vegetables or meat
  • noun
  • /ˌɑːɡrəˈdoʊlʧeɪ/
: agrodolce
  • The charming French restaurant, open in Fremont since 2004, will make way for Maria Hines's Agrodolce.
  • agrodolce dressing

Examples

  • The chef prepared an agrodolce sauce to enhance the flavor of the grilled vegetables.

  • For dinner, we enjoyed roasted fish topped with a delicious agrodolce relishy.

  • She used agrodolce as a dressing for her salad, adding a wonderful sweet-and-sour taste.

Synonyms

relish
vsagrodolce
19 3.2

A sauce made from chopped vegetables or fruit used to add flavor to food

is a sweet-and-sour Italian sauce used for flavoring vegetables fish or meat

Antonyms

plain
180 1.0

Simple and not decorated or flavored

Surface Forms

agrodolce singular
agrodolces plural

Etymology

Agrodolce comes from Italian agro 'sour' and dolce 'sweet', so an agrodolce is a sauce or relish that balances those two tastes. That's why cooks make it with vinegar for 'sour' and sugar or fruit for 'sweet' to add bright flavour to vegetables, fish, or meat.