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Grate

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

verbCore term

In culinary arts & cooking, grate means: To rub food against a rough perforated surface to produce small shreds or particles.

In Turkish: rendelemek

How it is used

Use with cheese, vegetables and similar foods; specify fine or coarse when needed.

Example sentences

  1. Grate the cheese finely over the finished pasta.

    The action produces small particles directly over the dish.

  2. The carrots were coarsely grated for the salad.

    Coarsely describes the size of the resulting shreds.

Common collocations

  • finely grate
  • coarsely grated carrot
  • zestThe thin, coloured outer layer of the skin of citrus fruit, full of aromatic oils, grated or cut off to add flavour. As a verb, to zest means to remove it.
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.

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