rösti
/ˈrəːsti
/noun (plural same) [mass noun]
1A Swiss dish of grated potatoes formed into a small flat cake and fried: the Swiss rösti, which is close to being their national home dish, is made with cooked potatoes...
- It was served, as was every dish save the fondue, with sides of red cabbage and rösti, that most delicious of Swiss dishes.
- The plate also has fruit, a small portion of rösti, toast, and more.
1.1 [count noun] A flat cake of grated potato: place 4 of the rösti in the pan...
- I used a big cutting board and carefully slid the rösti onto that, and then flipped.
- Next I had a magnificent bit of pintail duck, so gamey as to briefly persuade me that it might in fact have been a pigeon; there was chestnut and bacon there and sprout tops and a cheeky little rösti.
Origin
1950s: from Swiss German.
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- hot-swap
- hot-swappable
- hotsy-totsy
- hotte
- hot tear
- hot tearing
- hotted-up
- hot-tempered
- Hottentot
- Hottentot bean
- Hottentot bread
- Hottentot cherry
- Hottentotese
- Hottentot fig
- Hottentot god
- Hottentotish
- Hottentotism
- Hottentot pie
- Hottentot's bean
- Hottentot's bread
- Hottentot's cherry