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Compote

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, compote means: Fruit cooked gently with sugar or syrup, usually retaining pieces or shape.

In Turkish: pişmiş meyve hazırlığı, komposto meyvesi

How it is used

English compote often emphasizes the cooked fruit, not a large amount of drinkable liquid.

Example sentences

  1. Apple compote filled the small breakfast pastries.

    The fruit preparation is used as a filling.

  2. The chef spooned berry compote over the yoghurt.

    The cooked fruit can serve as a dessert topping.

Common collocations

  • apple compote
  • berry compote
  • simmerTo cook food gently in liquid kept just below boiling point, so that only small bubbles rise slowly to the surface.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

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