: a baked patty shell filled with meat, fowl, game, or seafood in sauce
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Recent menus included lunches of free-range guinea fowl with corn polenta and marinated carrots and dinners of lobster vol-au-vent with white pudding and spinach.—Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023 Henri loudly praised my mother’s vol-au-vents, my father’s wine selection, the house, the furniture, our car, and the Japanese maple out front; Marie-Céleste nodded and smiled.—Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023 At Camp, dinner might include a seafood tostada with a tomatillo vinaigrette, a mushroom vol-au-vent with sherry-sorghum cream sauce, or a lamb T-bone flavored with tikka masala.—Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2023 Coronation chicken vol-au-vents were also served at the party.—Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Apr. 2023
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