A well-seasoned meat or fish stew, usually with vegetables.
[French ragoût, from ragoûter, to revive the taste, from Old French ragouster : re-, re- + a-, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + gost, taste (from Latin gustus).]
ragout
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A well-seasoned meat or fish stew, usually with vegetables.
A well-seasoned meat or fish stew, usually with vegetables.
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Stew of meat or poultry and vegetables, browned in a little fat then gently simmered.
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IN BRIEF: A stew made of meat, vegetables, and much seasoning.
The lamb ragout was particularly well seasoned and delicious.
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The term ragout (French ragoût) refers to a main-dish stew. (The etymologically related Italian ragù is a sauce such as Bolognese used typically to dress pasta.)
The basic method of preparation involves slow cooking over a low heat. The potential ingredients are many: ragouts may be prepared with or without meat, a wide variety of vegetables may be incorporated, and they may be more or less heavily spiced and seasoned.
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Etymology: from the French ragoûter, to revive the taste.
Examples
Two eighteenth-century English dishes from The Compleat Housewife[1] show some of the varying meats, vegetables, seasonings, garnishes and procedures which can be applied to the ragoût.
A Ragoo for made Dishes
TAKE claret, gravy, sweet-herbs, and savoury spice, toss up in it lamb-stones[2], cock’s-combs, boiled, blanched, and sliced, with sliced sweet-meats, oysters, mushrooms, truffles, and murrels; thicken these with brown butter; use it when called for.
To make a Ragoo of Pigs-Ears
TAKE a quantity of pigs-ears, and boil them in one half wine and the other water; cut them in small pieces, then brown a little butter, and put them in, and a pretty deal of gravy, two anchovies, an eschalot or two, a little mustard, and some slices of lemon, some salt and nutmeg: stew all these together, and shake it up thick. Garnish the dish with barberries.
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Nederlands (Dutch)
ragout, mengsel, ragout bereiden
Français (French)
n. - ragoût
v. tr. - faire (qch) en ragoût
Deutsch (German)
n. - Ragout
v. - Ragout machen aus
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μαγειρ.) ραγού, γιαχνί
v. - καλοντύνομαι
Português (Portuguese)
n. - ragu (m)
v. - misturar
Español (Spanish)
n. - guiso, ragú
v. tr. - guisar
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ragu
v. - klä upp sig
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
蔬菜炖肉
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 蔬菜燉肉
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 고기.야채를 넣은 스튜의 일종
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) يخنه كثيرة التوابل (فعل) يضع الكثير من التوابل على الطعام
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תרביך, תבשיל בשר וירקות, רגו
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