beurre blanc

noun

: a seasoned butter sauce (as for fish) flavored with white wine, shallots, and vinegar or lemon juice

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Then move onto the pan-roasted striped bass with jumbo lump crabmeat and a caper beurre blanc or the Black Angus beef tenderloin in a pool of bordelaise sauce and bone butter melted on top. Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024 Whole trout is tightly bundled in chicories, grilled until smoky, then bathed in beurre blanc. Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2024 His finishing touches include citrus beurre blanc, chive, and lemon zest. Bypayton Kirol, Fortune Well, 1 July 2024 Choose the former to more fully taste the tender fish, cross-hatched and simply presented in a beurre blanc sauce that makes its savory flavors jump out. Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for beurre blanc 

Word History

Etymology

French, literally, white butter

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of beurre blanc was in 1958

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“Beurre blanc.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beurre%20blanc. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

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