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dorer

to brown

verb do-REH Rare
Food & Drink Cooking

Also means

to gild

Usage Note

Dorer in cooking means to brown or give a golden colour to food (faire dorer — to brown in a pan), and in a broader sense it means to gild or coat with gold. The kitchen instruction dorer au beurre (to brown in butter) is very common in French recipes. The related adjective doré(e) (golden) is frequently used to describe a golden crust.

Examples

"Faites dorer l'oignon dans la poêle."

Natural Translation

Brown the onion in the pan.

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