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brown butter

American  

noun

  1. beurre noir.


Example Sentences

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For the whole walk home, my clothes smelled of Breizh’s signature buckwheat and brown butter.

From The Wall Street Journal

After a few runs, settle in for a hearty lunch of schnitzel and spinach dumplings cooked in brown butter sauce at Filzalm, a cozy mountain hut perched 4,265 feet above sea level.

From The Wall Street Journal

And then, the one deliberate deviation: brown butter.

From Salon

For instance, I take great pride in the way my family’s brown butter shortbread cookie recipe consistently yields the most melt-in-your-mouth delight known to man.

From Salon

It’s served tempura style with brown butter, aged Buddha’s hand fruit, fresh walnuts and black truffle.

From The Wall Street Journal