hasselback

plural hasselbacks

1. cookingAlternative letter-case form of Hasselback.

   Supercharged with honey, garlic and bay, these caramelised hasselbacks are not your everyday carrot.

   2019 December 29, Lauren Rose-Smith, editor, Tesco Magazine, London: Cedar Communications Ltd., page 58

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   Peel the potatoes to approximately the same size, then slice them into hasselbacks, following the method in the Chef's techniques on page 61.

   1998, Potatoes, Sydney: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 32

   The key is a very sharp knife and a slow and steady hand, taking care not to cut entirely through the potato. (If you do, no worries! Your hasselbacks will still taste incredible.)

   2017, Dennis the Prescott, Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes for Your Daily Dose of Awesome, New York, NY: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 276

present singular third person hasselbacks · participle present hasselbacking · participle past hasselbacked · past hasselbacked

1. cookingTo slice (usually a potato or other root vegetable) thinly while leaving the bottom intact.

   You can hasselback any root veg and they look great on the plate.

   2025, Mariella Frostrup, Belles Berry, Menolicious, London: Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN

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   When it was cool enough to handle but still hot, I stuffed mine with about a slice and half of bacon that I'd cut into even one-inch squares, letting some of the bacon lay on top of the hasselbacked tater.

   2014, Jennifer L. S. Pearsall, The Big Book of Bacon: Savory Flirtations, Dalliances, and Indulgences With the Underbelly of the Pig, New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 196

   Use a knife to cut halfway through the apple halves in thin parallel slices, so that they stay intact. This is hasselbacking.

   2016, Andrew Tarlow, Dinner at the Long Table, Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 226

plural Hasselbacks · alternative hasselback

1. in pluralcookingA single unit of potato or other root vegetable in the dish of Hasselback potatoes.

alternative hasselback

1. A surname.

   The Xaverian student seeking Jim Ambrose's help was a boy named Nat Hasselback.

   2002, William M. Connolly, Shots Heard Round the World: Americans Answer the Call to Arms, Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris Corp., →ISBN, page 563

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   His online profile listed his name as Byron Hasselback, age seventeen. A check with the local high school indicated there was no Byron Hasselback registered. And there were no Hasselbacks listed in the phone book with addresses anywhere near the park where he'd walked with Kelly.

   2005, Joanna Wayne, Security Measures, Toronto: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 69