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Concassé

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, concassé means: Chopped tomato flesh with the skin and seeds removed, in common culinary usage.

In Turkish: soyulup çekirdeği çıkarılmış doğranmış domates

How it is used

Often written tomato concassé; the word indicates preparation as well as cutting.

Example sentences

  1. Add the tomato concassé near the end of the sauce preparation.

    The ingredient has already undergone peeling and seed removal.

  2. The concassé gave the fish garnish neat pieces of tomato.

    The prepared flesh provides pieces without skin or seeds.

Common collocations

  • tomato concassé
  • prepare a concassé
  • peelTo remove the skin of a fruit or vegetable. As a noun, peel is the skin of fruits such as oranges, lemons and potatoes.
  • diceTo cut food into small, even cubes. As a noun, dice also means the cubes themselves, as in a fine dice of carrot.

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