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sauté

[soh-tey, saw-] / soʊˈteɪ, sɔ- /




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Instead of selling a suite of diverse products, millennial brands focused on the “only” T-shirt, mattress or sauté pan you’ll ever need.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

That’s line-cook joy, kitchen–brigade joy — a very specific, slightly masochistic ecstasy that tends to belong to people who’ve burned off their fingerprints on sauté pans.

From Salon Nov. 25, 2025

But with you, it’s, ‘Well, can I sauté it in brown butter?’

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2024

Cooks sauté it in olive oil, season it with onions or boil it into soup to make tasty, low-cost meals.

From New York Times Apr. 7, 2024

Wanda stood up without a word and walked over to the kitchen, joining Ekemeni as she began to sauté greens in bacon fat.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Inspired by traditional Indian cooking and Southeast Asian flavors, this Food52 recipe bathes and simmers sautéed heads of romaine in a delicious mixture of gingery coconut milk, fresh lime juice and fish sauce.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

From garlic-lemon sautéed greens to ramen topped with baby bok choy, here are a few great meals to make with just a box of chicken stock.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

An even older icon awaits at Phnom Penh, a 40-year-old Vietnamese-Cambodian restaurant where crowds eagerly wait their turn to try nearly-raw marinated butter beef and lotus root sautéed with chilies.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 27, 2025

In one corner, sautéed bitter gourd—in another, briny sea grapes.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 25, 2025

They found the smell of new paint for a grand opening, dinner specials being simmered, sautéed, baked, or fried.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

Having dishes prepared in the same kitchen sections slows things down, so the options needed to vary between broiling, sautéing and frying shrimp, and options with or without pasta.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

It has a smoke point between 375 and 410°F, which is more than sufficient for most cooking methods, including sautéing, roasting and grilling.

From Salon Jan. 19, 2025

Roasting and sautéing are the most popular methods used to enhance Brussels sprouts’ earthy, nutty and sweet flavor.

From Washington Times Nov. 14, 2023

The chopping, sautéing and seasoning we see on this cooking-competition show might be more impressive than usual this year.

From New York Times Mar. 6, 2023

That is the difference between sautéing and frying but there are one or two points about frying—this much abused way of cooking—that must be borne in mind if one would have the best results.

From Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest by McClure, Mary Jane




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