braised; braising
: to cook slowly in fat and a small amount of liquid in a closed pot
Examples of braise in a Sentence
Verb
He braised the beef in a wine sauce.
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Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
Dishes are hearty and built around big flavors: a salty-sweet slab of thick-cut bacon braised in fish sauce and served on a pandan waffle; furiously spicy đụ má’ hot sauce electrifying a breakfast burrito.
—Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
This marvelous oven has an eight-in-one function with multiple cooking modes to slow cook, braise, bake, and make brown rice, white rice, pasta, and oats.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
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Verb
This marvelous oven has an eight-in-one function with multiple cooking modes to slow cook, braise, bake, and make brown rice, white rice, pasta, and oats.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
Dishes are hearty and built around big flavors: a salty-sweet slab of thick-cut bacon braised in fish sauce and served on a pandan waffle; furiously spicy đụ má’ hot sauce electrifying a breakfast burrito.
—Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
While most broths are perfectly serviceable for rounding out the flavors of a soup or giving a brothy head start to a braise, Epic provides the kind of gelatine-rich base that is worthy of spinning up into a ramen broth for weeknight noodle duty.
—Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
This marvelous oven has an eight-in-one function with multiple cooking modes to slow cook, braise, bake, and make brown rice, white rice, pasta, and oats.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for braise
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“Braise.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/braise. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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