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pot-au-feu /ˌpɒtəʊˈfəː /noun (plural same) [mass noun]A French soup of meat, typically boiled beef, and vegetables cooked in a large pot: a brasserie menu including pot-au-feu and pig’s trotters [count noun]: he dished up a heart-stopping pot-au-feu...- The simplest consommé of all, in France, is the broth from pot-au-feu.
- Soups, rabbit dishes, and dishes such as pot-au-feu, coq au vin, and blanquettes are often requested by pickers nostalgic for an era when long, slow cooking was the norm.
- The legendary peasant woman kept a pot-au-feu or bouillon pot on her hearth and, myth has it, threw into it whatever she had around to stew for the day's meal.
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