单词 | marinate |
释义 | marinate (once / 18240 pages) v When you marinate food, you let it sit in a flavorful liquid before cooking it. You might marinate fish in soy sauce before putting it on the grill. The liquid used to marinate meat, fish, or vegetables is called a "marinade," and it usually includes some acidic ingredient like lemon juice or vinegar that helps the flavors penetrate the food. When you marinate chicken or tofu or beef, it becomes more moist and delicious after you cook it. The French root, mariner, means "to pickle in sea brine." WORD FAMILYmarinate: marinated, marinates, marinating USAGE EXAMPLESIt is, instead, a music-business comedy marinated in specificity and local flavor, set in a real place with realistic people trying to get by. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) We start with deep-fried spareribs marinated in fermented tofu, which play beautifully against spears of house-pickled turnips and carrots. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) Place slices in soy sauce and lemon juice and marinate for 30 minutes to an hour. Seattle Times(Dec 07, 2016) v soak in marinade Syn|Hyper marinade infuse, steep let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse |
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