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French vocabulary C1: Cooking, baking and food
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Cooking verbs, pastry, kitchen tools and food words: “bouillir”, “le glaçage”, “la louche”, “le topinambour” and “paner”, with their English meanings.
120 French words at level C1, with their translation.
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bombé (cuillère)also: bombée, comble
heaped (spoonful)also: heaping
griller (sur le feu)
to grill (over a fire)
le hareng
herring
la pâte (à tarte)
pastry doughalso: dough
les abats
offal
l'avoine
oats
le bretzel
pretzel
la pousse (de la pâte)
rising (of dough)also: proving
la purée (de fruits ou de légumes)
purée (of fruit or vegetables)
la croûte (de fromage)
rind (of cheese)
le seigle
rye
saignant (viande)also: saignante
rare (steak)
trancher (couper en tranches)also: couper en tranches
to slice
le porto
port (wine)also: port wine
le saké
sake (Japanese rice wine)
le punch
punch (drink)also: rum punch
le pudding
pudding (a kind of dessert)
le shooter
shot (small strong drink)also: shooter
le snack
snack bar
moelleuxalso: moelleuse
soft and moistalso: moist, spongy, tender
la cuisine (style de cuisine)
cuisine (style of cooking)
le festin
feast
la gastronomie
gastronomy
passer (au tamis)
to strain (through a sieve)also: to sieve
la truffe
truffle
la garniture (sur le dessus)also: le nappage
topping (on top of a dish)
l'ustensile
utensil
le tofu
tofu
incorporer (délicatement)
to fold in (in cooking)also: to incorporate, to blend in
dépouiller (un animal)
to skin (an animal)also: to flay
garnir (un plat)
to garnish
faire sauter (au wok)
to stir-fry
faire des provisions (de qqch)also: s'approvisionner
to stock up (on sth)also: to stock up on, to get supplies
la mousse (dessert)
mousse (dessert)
la louche (de cuisine)
ladle
la moutarde
mustard
les lasagnesalso: la lasagne
lasagnaalso: lasagne
la sucette
lollipop
la guimauve
marshmallowalso: marshmallows
le pépin (de fruit)
pip (of a fruit)also: seed
le cake
fruit cakealso: fruitcake, loaf cake
le cornichon
gherkinalso: pickled gherkin
le donutalso: le doughnut
doughnut (ring-shaped)also: donut, ring doughnut
le baba
rum babaalso: baba
le mangeuralso: la mangeuse
eater
le glaçage
icingalso: frosting
mixer
to blend (food)also: to liquidise
la gourde
water bottlealso: flask
la gaufre
waffle
l'igname
yam
le bagel
bagel
l'arôme
aroma
congeléalso: congelée
frozen (at home)
la friandise
sweet treatalso: treat, titbit
frire (aliment)
to be frying (of food)
la canette
can (of drink)also: drinks can
la compote
stewed fruitalso: compote
la dégustation
tasting (of wine or food)also: wine tasting, food tasting
la morue (fraîche)
fresh cod
le sésame
sesame
confit (fruit)also: confite
candied (fruit)also: crystallised
le goulot
neck (of a bottle)
les macaronisalso: le macaroni
macaroni
la datte
date (fruit)
les primeurs
early producealso: early vegetables, early fruit and vegetables
la bavette
flank steakalso: flank
la poissonnerie
fishmonger's (shop)also: fish shop
la viande séchée
cured meatalso: dried meat, air-dried meat
croquantalso: croquante
crunchy
la châtaigne
chestnut (the nut)
le cheesecake
cheesecake
le brûleur (de cuisinière)
burner (on a cooker)also: ring, gas ring
le crumblealso: la pâte à crumble
crumblealso: fruit crumble, crumble topping
le beurre clarifié
clarified butter
la crème caramel
crème caramelalso: creme caramel, caramel custard
démouler
to turn out (of a mould)also: to unmould
faire suer (des légumes)
to sweat (vegetables)
la pince de cuisinealso: les pinces de cuisine
tongsalso: kitchen tongs
baratter
to churn (butter)
aromatiser
to flavouralso: to flavor
paner
to coat in breadcrumbsalso: to breadcrumb, to bread
le cochon de lait
suckling pigalso: roast suckling pig
mettre au fraisalso: réfrigérer
to chill (food)also: to refrigerate, to put in the fridge
mettre en conserve
to can (food)also: to tin, to preserve
assurer la restauration
to cateralso: to provide catering
le risotto
risotto
le raisin sec
raisin
la barquette (de fruits)
punnet (of fruit)
décortiquer
to shell (nuts or prawns)also: to peel
pocher (un œuf)
to poach (an egg)
boire bruyamment
to slurpalso: to drink noisily
la pâte filo
filo pastryalso: phyllo pastry, filo
rassisalso: rassie
stale (bread)
la pâte brisée
shortcrust pastry
la dauradealso: la dorade
sea breamalso: gilthead bream
le salage
salting (of food)
le gâteau de semoule
semolina pudding
le riz rond
short-grain ricealso: round-grain rice, pudding rice
les vermicelles en sucre
sprinkles
le bain-marie
bain-mariealso: water bath, double boiler
le boudin noir
black puddingalso: blood sausage, blood pudding
les blancs en neigealso: les blancs d'œufs en neige, les blancs d'œufs battus en neige, les blancs d'œufs battus, les blancs d'œufs montés
beaten egg whitesalso: whisked egg whites, egg whites beaten stiff
la pâte à crêpes
batter (for pancakes)also: pancake batter
la machine à pain
bread makeralso: breadmaker, bread machine
le sucre roux
brown sugar
antiadhésifalso: antiadhésive
non-stickalso: nonstick
la farine d'avoine
oatmealalso: oat flour
hors saison
out of season
le pignon de pinalso: le pignon
pine nutalso: pine kernel
le topinambour
Jerusalem artichoke
le pain d'épices
gingerbreadalso: spice bread
sur le plan du goût
in terms of tastealso: as far as taste is concerned, taste-wise
le chou frisé
kalealso: curly kale
la brochette de viande
kebab (meat on a skewer)also: shish kebab, meat skewer
vorace
voraciousalso: ravenous
à maturité (fromage ou vin)also: affiné, affinée, à point
mature (of cheese or wine)also: ripe, well-aged
emballé sous videalso: emballée sous vide
vacuum-packedalso: vacuum packed, vacuum-sealed
voracement
voraciouslyalso: ravenously
mettre l'eau à la bouchealso: faire venir l'eau à la bouche, faire saliver
to make your mouth wateralso: to make someone's mouth water
l'arrière-goût
aftertaste
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