quenelle

[ kuh-nel ]

noun
  1. French Cooking. a dumpling of finely chopped fish or meat that is poached in water or stock and usually served with a sauce.

Origin of quenelle

1
1835–45; <French <German Knödel dumpling

Words Nearby quenelle

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How to use quenelle in a sentence

  • The First Amendment would never prohibit the quenelle, regardless of its symbolic meaning.

  • Stir a gill of cream to the quenelle meat, then use enough of the spinach to give it a fine light-green color.

    Choice Cookery | Catherine Owen
  • Put some very light chicken force meat (quenelle) in small round buttered timbale moulds, and cook in bain-marie (double boiler).

  • La quenelle was by no means disconcerted, and he put the belt on himself in order to show me how it was used.

    My Double Life | Sarah Bernhardt

British Dictionary definitions for quenelle

quenelle

/ (kəˈnɛl) /


noun
  1. a finely sieved mixture of cooked meat or fish, shaped into various forms and cooked in stock or fried as croquettes

Origin of quenelle

1
C19: from French, from German Knödel dumpling, from Old High German knodo knot

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