Meanings
verbred-cook (third-person singular simple present red-cooks, present participle red-cooking, simple past and past participle red-cooked)
present singular third person red-cooks · participle present red-cooking · participle past red-cooked · past red-cooked
- transitivecookingTo braise (food) with a Chinese slow cooking technique that imparts a reddish-brown colour to the food.
We often stuff seasoned ground meat inside it like stuffed cucumber and then red-cook the whole thing.
2011, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Fermented Black Soybeans (165 B. C. To 2011), page 117
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