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Parboil

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

verbCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, parboil means: To boil food briefly so it is partly cooked before another cooking stage.

In Turkish: kısmen haşlamak

How it is used

Common with potatoes that will later be roasted or fried.

Example sentences

  1. Parboil the potatoes before roasting them with rosemary.

    Boiling is an initial stage, not the final cooking method.

  2. The rice was parboiled before it went into the layered dish.

    The rice will finish cooking with the other components.

Common collocations

  • parboiled potatoes
  • parboil before roasting
  • boilTo heat a liquid until it bubbles strongly, or to cook food in such a liquid. Water boils at 100°C at sea level.
  • 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.

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