velouté
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A smooth white sauce made with meat or fish stock and thickened with cooked flour and butter
- noun
- /vəˈluːteɪ/
- Specialized
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velouté
- For the main course, we enjoyed chicken served in a flavorful velouté sauce made with fresh herbs.
Examples
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Um, exchange grouper for sole, escarole for the potato, and... the beef sauce for the velouté.
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The chef prepared a delicate fish dish served with a rich mushroom velouté as the base.
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During the cooking class, we learned how to make a classic velouté sauce using homemade stock.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word velouté comes from French and means 'velvety', and it is related to the English word velvet. So a velouté sauce is named for its smooth, soft texture like velvet and is used as a rich base.