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Paysanne

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, paysanne means: A cut producing thin, flat vegetable pieces, often following the vegetable's shape.

In Turkish: ince yassı sebze kesimi, peyzan

How it is used

Common in classical knife training and descriptions of soup vegetables.

Example sentences

  1. Prepare the turnips in paysanne for the vegetable soup.

    The cut gives the soup thin pieces rather than deep cubes.

  2. The tutor asked for a thinner paysanne on the carrots.

    Thickness is a key feature being assessed in this cut.

Common collocations

  • paysanne cut
  • vegetable paysanne
  • sliceTo cut something into thin, flat pieces. As a noun, a slice is one of these pieces, such as a slice of bread or lemon.
  • 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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