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sauté

[soh-tey, saw-] / soʊˈteɪ, sɔ- /




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In a large sauté pan, heat three tablespoons of olive oil and stir in three large garlic cloves, thinly sliced.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

The first step is to sauté leeks and garlic in olive oil, butter and, crucially, a bit of white miso.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

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

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

Tuesday calls for something fresh and fiber-rich: sautéed kale and Swiss chard.

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

My favorite meal is gambas à guilho: shrimp sautéed in garlic and olive oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 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

We give grilled cheese a tasty — and somewhat healthful! — update by sautéing kale by the handful with caramelized onions to make the bulk of the filling for the sandwich.

From Washington Times Oct. 2, 2023

This leaves the shrimp tender and briny, without any of the browned, caramelized notes you would get from sautéing.

From Seattle Times Aug. 20, 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 Mary Jane McClure




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