Nouvelle cuisine is a style of cooking in which very fresh foods are lightly cooked and served in unusual combinations. You can also refer to food that has been cooked in this way as nouvelle cuisine.
The classics of Gascony are served as well as nouvelle cuisine.
nouvelle cuisine in British English
(ˈnuːvɛl kwɪˈziːn)
noun
a style of preparing and presenting food, often raw or only lightly cooked, with light sauces, and unusual combinations of flavours and garnishes
Word origin
C20: French, literally: new cookery
nouvelle cuisine in American English
a style of French cooking that uses a minimum of fat and starch and emphasizes light sauces and the use of very fresh ingredients, often in unusual combinations prepared simply and served artistically arranged on the plate
Word origin
Fr, new cuisine
Examples of 'nouvelle cuisine' in a sentence
nouvelle cuisine
It seems to have gone back to small nouvelle cuisine portions and decorated plates.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Both flowers are edible, and in the high days of nouvelle cuisine were often sprinkled on dishes.