flambé

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Being, or having been, flambéed.
Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

noun

A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
A flambéed dish.

verb

To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-flambé.wav

flambé flambe flambés flambéing flambéed flambéd

Borrowed from French flambé.

flambeau flamboyant

Florida flambe

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