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to pan-roast

to pan-roast

1 5.2
Cook meat or vegetables in a hot pan and finish them in the oven
  • verb
  • /pæn roʊst/
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  • For dinner, I decided to pan-roast some vegetables along with my steak to enhance the flavors.
  • pan-roasted chicken
  • pan-roasted halibut
  • pan-roasted salmon

Examples

  • Another night I had pan-roasted Arctic char, which was also perfectly cooked.

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  • It's pan-roasted tilapia with squash blossoms.

  • The Gray Team made pan-roasted halibut, mushrooms, English peas, and wheat beer with herb sabayon.

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  • The Yellow Team made pan-roasted cod, mushrooms, fava beans, pickled green apple, and garlic scape pistou.

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  • The chef demonstrated how to pan-roast a juicy chicken by first searing it in the pan before finishing it in the oven.

  • He likes to pan-roast his fish, which gives it a crispy skin while keeping the flesh tender and moist.

Synonyms

to cook
vsto pan-roast
1.0

To prepare food by heating it, for example by boiling or frying

is a specific dry-heat pan or oven method rather than any heating method
to roast
vsto pan-roast
172 1.0

To cook food using dry heat in an oven or over a fire

cooks by dry heat specifically in a pan rather than oven or open fire
to pan-broil
vsto pan-roast
  • US
7.0

To cook food in a hot pan without adding fat so melted fat runs off

cooks by dry heat in a pan or oven and often uses fat

How Oily

to deep-fry
8 2.8
to pan-fry
3 2.9
sauté
6.1
to pan-roast
1 5.2
to pan-broil
  • US
7.0
to broil
  • US
17 2.8

Surface Forms

pan-roast infinitive
pan-roasted past participle
pan-roasting present participle
pan-roasts third person singular

Morphology

pan-roast = pan + roast (transparent) = pan + roast

Meaning is directly the combination of 'pan' + 'roast': to roast in a pan, which is clear to learners.

Etymology

Pan-roast comes from the simple words pan and roast. A pan is a flat cooking pan and to roast means 'to cook with dry heat', so to pan-roast is to 'roast' food in a pan rather than on a spit or over an open fire.