Meanings
alternative en papillote
- uncountablecookingA method of cooking, where the food is wrapped in a pouch made of culinary parchment paper, and then cooked in an oven.
fish baked en papillote
1 more example
Suffice it to say that the partridge wings were served en papillote, and the grey squirrels stewed in madeira.
1854, Fayette Robinson, transl., The Physiology of Taste, translation of Physiologie du Goût by Brillat-Savarin, page 114Synonyms: al cartoccio
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA method of cooking, where the food is wrapped in a pouch made of culinary parchment paper, and then cooked in an oven.
Origin
- Frenchen papillote
- Englishen-papillote
Borrowed from French en papillote (literally “in paper”), see papillote.
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