Meanings
- uncountableA mayonnaise-style cold egg sauce of French origin, made by emulsifying hard-boiled egg yolks and mustard with a neutral oil like canola or grapeseed.
Spoon some gribiche onto each egg and around the plates.
2008, Rick Moonen, Roy Finamore, Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion, page 971 more example
Presiding over a modest open kitchen, Mr. Trolf, often in casual shirts and a chef’s apron, performs nightly (except Tuesdays), sharing recipes and stories with patrons as he drizzles a briny gribiche sauce on fennel-powdered sea scallops, or meticulously slices a dry-aged rib-eye steak.
2015 August 28, Susan M. Novick, “Restaurant Review: Lost & Found in Long Beach Has a Chef Who Goes for the Flavor Bomb”, in New York Times
Origin
- Frenchgribiche
- Englishgribiche
Unadapted borrowing from French gribiche
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