flambe

A verb used to describe the culinary technique of pouring alcohol over food and igniting it briefly before serving.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé en cuisine pour décrire la technique consistant à verser de l'alcool sur un aliment puis à l'enflammer brièvement avant de le servir. Il peut aussi signifier, au sens figuré, dilapider ou gaspiller de l'argent de manière ostentatoire.

1. Ignite with liquor B2 formal culinary

   To pour a small amount of liquor over a dish and then set it alight for flavor and presentation.

   • The bartender flambéd the dessert with rum.
   • For a dramatic effect, the chef flambés the steak before serving.
   • She learned how to flambé properly in culinary school.
   • The recipe calls for flambéing the fruit with brandy.

   🇫🇷Flamber

   Synonymes: flame

• flambed past participle
• flambéed past participle
• flambed past simple
• flambéed past simple
• flambing present participle
• flambéing present participle
• flambes third person singular
• flambés third person singular