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Confit

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In culinary arts & cooking, confit means: A preparation in which food is cooked slowly in fat, especially duck or other meat.

In Turkish: yağ içinde yavaş pişirme, konfi

How it is used

Menu descriptions may use confit before the ingredient or after it.

Example sentences

  1. The menu pairs duck confit with lentils and mustard.

    Confit identifies how the duck component was prepared.

  2. Garlic confit gave the purée a mellow flavour.

    The technique can also be applied to ingredients other than meat.

Common collocations

  • duck confit
  • garlic confit
  • roastTo cook meat, poultry or vegetables with dry heat in an oven, usually at a fairly high temperature so the outside browns. As a noun, a roast is a joint of meat cooked this way.
  • ingredientOne of the foods or other items, such as flour, oil or salt, that are combined to make a particular dish.

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