sabayon

noun

sa·​ba·​yon sä-bä-ˈyōⁿ 

1

: zabaglione

2

: a sauce of egg yolks, wine, and savory seasonings (such as mustard or pepper)

Examples of sabayon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Dessert items include chocolate mousse and raspberry bagatelle cakes, fresh strawberries with sabayon sauce, and French vanilla ice cream. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024

That Basque butter cake though, exquisitely rich on its own, crowned recently with a blueberry compote and plated on a prosecco sabayon cloud, stands as the perfect dessert of choice, and will change seasonally. —Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024

Desserts include a French-style sablé biscuit with pear and custard-like sabayon incorporating Madeira wine. —Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 30 May 2024

The accompanying fricassee of springy morel mushrooms and fava beans will be served with a sesame oil sabayon, an intriguing-sounding sauce that marries the Asian flavor of sesame with a classic French preparation typically found in the dessert course. —Emily Heil, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024

For dessert, share a warm decadent chocolate sabayon with extra virgin olive oil, cognac and crushed frozen raspberry ($10) or a vanilla bean pavlova with coconut cream and passionfruit curd ($11). —Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2024

Fingerling potatoes, grilled low and slow until their skins turned thick and crisp and separated from their velvety flesh, smacked of a campfire, except for a luscious green gloss of savory sabayon. —Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023

Pour sabayon over oranges. —Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022

Send your favorite ice cream lover a Salt & Straw Cue the Confetti ice cream gift pack, $98, with five pints, including pink champagne sabayon with jelly doughnuts and chocolate gooey brownie, plus gold and silver sprinkles and a balloon celebration banner. —Regan Stephens, Fortune, 4 July 2021

Word History

Etymology

French, modification of Italian zabaione

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for sabayon

• aileron
• antiphon
• autobahn
• carillon
• castellan
• celadon
• cephalon
• chitosan
• cynodon
• denouement
• deuteron
• echelon