flambé

Meanings

Adjective

• Being, or having been, flambéed.
• Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.

Noun

• A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
• A flambéed dish.

Verb

• To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.

Origin

• Borrowed from French flambé.