paprika sauce
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- noun
- The chef prepared a delicious paprika sauce to accompany the grilled chicken.
Examples
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"I have the paprika sauce in that pot," he whispers hoarsely after a moment, pointing at the stove.
Fiction book (1993) -
Still, he has yet to prepare the paprika sauce for the Pojarskiya kotleti as well as the salmon filling for the coulibiac.
Fiction book (1993) -
She poured the paprika sauce over the pasta, adding a spicy kick to the dish.
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For the recipe, you will need to make a paprika sauce using sautéed onions and cream.
Synonyms
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A smooth sauce made from light broth, butter, fried onion, paprika, and cream, served with meat or vegetables
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'paprika' (a powdered red-pepper spice) plus 'sauce' (a condiment), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer it is a sauce flavored with paprika. This noun+noun compound pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so the specific culinary description is not required for comprehension.
Etymology
The noun paprika sauce comes from Hungary, where cooks made a creamy red sauce by frying onion and adding cream and ground red paprika. So today paprika sauce means a rich, red sauce that tastes of paprika.