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Slurry

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, slurry means: A mixture of starch and cool liquid used to thicken a hot sauce, soup or other liquid.

In Turkish: nişasta ve sıvı bulamacı

How it is used

Specify the starch when useful; a slurry disperses it before it enters the hot mixture.

Example sentences

  1. Mix a cornflour slurry for the fruit sauce.

    The starch is first distributed through a separate liquid.

  2. The slurry thickened the sauce as it cooked.

    The dispersed starch thickens the sauce when heated, after the initial cold mixing step.

Common collocations

  • cornflour slurry
  • starch slurry
  • rouxA mixture of equal amounts of fat, usually butter, and flour cooked together and used to thicken sauces and soups.
  • saucepanA deep, round metal pan with one long handle and often a lid, used for boiling, simmering and making sauces.

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