Meanings
- cookingServed in a broth in which it was poached or cooked.
When fish is served à la nage, the vegetables should be chopped carefully so they create a decorative effect in the bowl. Some chefs like to cut grooves in the sides of the carrots with a channel knife so that the sliced carrots have a distinct cog[…]
2017, James Peterson, Sauces: Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 295
Origin
- Frenchà la nage“swimming”
- Englishà la nage
French à la nage (“swimming”, literally “in the (act of) swimming”).
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