top and tail
to cut off the hard parts at each end of a fruit or vegetable when you prepare it for cooking:
Top and tail the beans.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing the skin or seed from fruit & vegetables
- core
- hull
- pare
- peel
- pit
- pitted
- seed
- seeded
- shell
- shuck
- skinless
- stone
- stoned
- top
- winnow