brown butter
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- noun
- /braʊn ˈbʌtər/
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mantequilla marrón
- The chef recommended using brown butter to enhance the nutty taste of the cookie dough.
- brown butter sauce
- sage brown butter
- brown butter and capers
And there, my friends, is your brown butter and herb stuffing.
- And there, my friends, is your brown butter and herb stuffing.
- So we are using my brown butter cheese sauce and I'm going to layer that into the pan over the ground beef.
- This one is cauliflower puree with the little piece of Sir Strumming brown butter sauce with crispy.
Examples
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The first course will be hand-rolled pear and ricotta ravioli with sage crisps, hazelnuts, and brown butter sauce.
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So now with this cooled brown butter, we're going to add some sugar and we're just going to bring this together.
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It is a brown butter chocolate chip cookie and it's good.
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So we are using my brown butter cheese sauce and I'm going to layer that into the pan over the ground beef.
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And there, my friends, is your brown butter and herb stuffing.
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It's a small, boutique-style dining room with dishes like skate with Indian eggplant and lemon brown butter.
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This pasta is delicious with a rich brown butter sauce that complements the flavors perfectly.
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For an extra layer of flavor, drizzle brown butter over the roasted vegetables before serving.
Synonyms
Butter cooked until light brown that has a nutty taste and is used as a sauce
How Browned
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'butter that has been melted and cooked until it turns brown' is directly and compositionally derived from 'brown' (to brown by heating) + 'butter' (dairy fat). This is a straightforward culinary descriptive phrase following common adjective/participle + noun patterns and is cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Brown butter is named for what happens when you cook it: if you melt butter and keep cooking, the tiny bits in it turn brown and give a warm, nutty smell and taste. So 'brown butter' means butter made this way and is used to add a rich, nutty flavor to food.