sauté

• saute
• sautee, sautée
• sauter (dated)

Borrowed from French sauté, past participle of sauter (“to sauté”, literally “to jump”); in cooking, diced onions jump in the pan from the hot oil.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊteɪ/

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• (US) enPR: sōtāʹ, sôtāʹ, IPA^(key): /soʊˈteɪ/, /sɔˈteɪ/, /sɑˈteɪ/

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sauté (third-person singular simple present sautés, present participle sautéing, simple past and past participle sautéed or sautéd)

1. (transitive) To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks.
   • 1906, Fannie Merritt Farmer, “Lamb and Mutton”, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, section “Lamb en Casserole”, page 220:

     Parboil three-fourths cup carrot, cut in strips, fifteen minutes; drain, and sauté in one tablespoon bacon fat to which has been added one tablespoon finely chopped onion. […] Cook until potatoes are soft, then add twelve small onions cooked until soft, then drained and sautéd in two tablespoons butter to which is added one tablespoon sugar. Onions need not be sautéd unless they are desired glazed. Serve from casserole dish.

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 14, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     Frying and sautéing are methods that heat foods for the most part by conduction from a hot, oiled pan, with temperatures between 350 and 450°F/175–225°C that encourage Maillard browning and flavor development.

   • 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’s tasty and nutritious as well.

sauté (plural sautés)

1. A dish prepared this way.

• useta

• IPA^(key): /so.te/

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sauté (feminine sautée, masculine plural sautés, feminine plural sautées)

1. past participle of sauter

sauté m (plural sautés)

1. (countable) sauté (dish cooked by sautéing)

• “sauté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sauté (invariable)

1. sautéed, browned

sauté m (invariable)

1. sauté

• usate

From French sauter (“to jump”); compare Haitian Creole sote.

sauté

1. to jump

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

• IPA^(key): /sawˈte/

sauté

1. to jump

Unadapted borrowing from French sauté.

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈtɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: sau‧té

sauté (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (cooking) browned, sautéed

• sauté in Polish dictionaries at PWN