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avgolemono

n. Any of a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg and lemon juice mixed with broth.

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Avgolemono

Avgolemono (from ) or egg-lemon sauce, is a family of Mediterranean sauces and soups made with egg yolk and lemon juice mixed with broth, heated until they thicken. In Arabic, it is called tarbiya or beida bi-lemoune 'egg with lemon'; and in Turkish terbiye. In Sephardic Jewish cuisine, it is called agristada or salsa blanco, and in Italian cuisine, bagna brusca, brodettato, or brodo brusco. It is also widely used in Balkan cuisine.

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I expect we'll have the eggs, but apart from that we'll probably have to eat shoe-leather with avgolemono sauce.

The mayeritsa soup with its avgolemono sauce disappeared into his maw as if he had just returned from a day's fishing, and the Iatre b, sprinkled with oregano and pierced with abundant slivers of garlic, was crammed down his throat with a ravenous appetite worthy of a Turk.