en-papillote
English
Alternative forms
- en papillote
Etymology
Borrowed from French en papillote (literally “in paper”), see papillote.
Noun
en-papillote (uncountable)
- (cooking) A method of cooking, where the food is wrapped in a pouch made of culinary parchment paper, and then cooked in an oven.
- fish baked en papillote
- 1854, Fayette Robinson, transl., The Physiology of Taste, translation of Physiologie du Goût by Brillat-Savarin, page 114:
- Suffice it to say that the partridge wings were served en papillote, and the grey squirrels stewed in madeira.
Synonyms
- al cartoccio (term derived from Italian, instead of French)
See also
- en-vessie
- sous-vide
- boil-in-bag
Further reading
- “en papillote”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.