sauté

See also: saute

English

Alternative forms

• saute
• sautee, sautée
• sauter (dated)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

• Audio (General American):

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Verb

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.

Derived terms

• sauté up

Translations

to cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat

• Bikol Central: gisa
• Bulgarian: соти́рам (sotíram)
• Catalan: saltar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嫩煎 (nènjiān) (meat, fish, beancurd), 煎炒 (zh) (jiānchǎo), 炒 (zh) (chǎo) (also means stir-fry)

• Danish: sautere
• Finnish: käristää (fi), soteerata
• French: sauter (fr)
• Galician: refogar, rustrir
• German: sautieren (de)
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pirít (hu), megpirít (hu), kevés zsíron, hirtelen kisüt
• Indonesian: tumis (id)
• Irish: sótáil
• Italian: padellare, saltare (it), rosolare (it)
• Japanese: 炒める (ja) (いためる, itameru), ソテー (ja) (sotē)
• Malay: tumis (ms)
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: सॉटे करणे (sŏṭe karṇe)
• Portuguese: refogar (pt), saltear
• Russian: жа́рить на ма́сле impf (žáritʹ na másle)
• Spanish: rehogar (es)
• Swedish: sautera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sotelemek, sote etmek

Noun

sauté (plural sautés)

1. A dish prepared this way.

Derived terms

• saute pan

Translations

a dish prepared this way

• Bikol Central: ginisa
• Bulgarian: соте́ n (soté)
• Finnish: käristys (fi)
• Galician: rustrido m, refrito m
• Indonesian: tumis (id), tumisan
• Italian: saltata (it)
• Turkish: sote (tr)

Anagrams

• useta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.te/

• Audio:

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Participle

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

1. past participle of sauter

Noun

sauté m (plural sautés)

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

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

sauté (invariable)

1. sautéed, browned

Noun

sauté m (invariable)

1. sauté

Anagrams

• usate

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

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

Verb

sauté

1. to jump

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sawˈte/

Verb

sauté

1. to jump

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French sauté.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔˈtɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: sau‧té

Adjective

sauté (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (cooking) browned, sautéed

Further reading

• sauté in Polish dictionaries at PWN