A seasoning composed of finely diced sautéed vegetables and herbs and sometimes diced ham, bacon, or salt pork.
[After Charles Pierre Gaston François de Lévis, Duc de Mirepoix (1699-1757), French diplomat.]
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A seasoning composed of finely diced sautéed vegetables and herbs and sometimes diced ham, bacon, or salt pork.
A seasoning composed of finely diced sautéed vegetables and herbs and sometimes diced ham, bacon, or salt pork.
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Mixture of finely chopped carrots, celery, and onions, fried in butter and used to flavour meat dishes.
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[mihr-PWAH] A mixture of diced carrots, onions, celery and herbs sautéed in butter. Sometimes ham or bacon is added. Mirepoix is used to season sauces, soups and stews, as well as for a bed on which to braise foods, usually meats or fish.
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Mirepoix may refer to:
- Mirepoix, a traditional French culinary combination of onions, carrots and celery aromatics. A common ratio of ingredients is 2 parts onion, 1 part carrot and 1 part celery. The term is colloquially and imprecisely used to describe a brunoise or small dice cut typically used to prepare mirepoix.
Mirepoix is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:
- Mirepoix in the Ariège département
- Mirepoix in the Gers département
- Mirepoix-sur-Tarn, in the Haute-Garonne département
- Duc de Mirepoix, a French title
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