Crossword clues for confit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confit \Con"fit\, n. Same as Comfit. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obsolete form of comfit.
Wiktionary
(label fr food) preserved, pickled n. Any of various kinds of food that have been immersed in a substance for both flavor and preservation. v
1 (past participle of confire French) 2 (inflection of confire 3 s pres indc French) 3 (inflection of confire 3 s phis French)
Wikipedia
Confit ( French, pronounced or in English "con-fee") comes from the French word confire which means literally "to preserve"; a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.
Confit as a cooking term describes when food is cooked in grease, oil or sugar water (syrup), at a lower temperature — as opposed to deep frying. While deep frying typically takes place at temperatures of , confit preparations are done much lower—an oil temperature of around , sometimes even cooler. The term is usually used in modern cuisine to mean long slow cooking in oil or fat at low temperatures, many having no element of preservation such as dishes like confit potatoes.
In meat cooking this requires the meat to be salted as part of the preservation process. After salting and cooking in the fat, sealed and stored in a cool, dark place, confit can last for several months or years. Confit is one of the oldest ways to preserve food, and is a specialty of southwestern France.
Usage examples of "confit".
Then cooking to Michelin star standard becomes as easy as making shepherd's pie: easier, in fact, as do not need to peel potatoes, merely confit them in goose fat.
Orange confit looks fantastic, though, just like in picture only darker.
Beaks tilted back, they burbled a liquid harmony, while within, silent servitors wrapped in Patricien purple passed among the visitors, dispensing dew-beaded glasses of icy-cold crushed raspberries and flat crackers spread with truffled confit of duck.
The juice was sweet and fruity, the confit salty and heavy with garlic and sprinkled with thyme and orkan.
The spies' report had interrupted Tamalane's breakfast of cifruit confit laced with melange.
Swallowing a mouthful of her confit, Tamalane said: " 'Bring them back!
Stiros and Tuek alone, debating far into the night, just the two of them (they thought) in Tuek's quarters, comfortably ensconced in rare blue chairdogs, melange-laced confits close at hand.
Swallowing a mouthful of her confit, Tamalane said: " 'Bring them back!
The chief subscribes to Cinema Confit, Pan and Scan, and Hollywood Honeys, Carl gets Media Zone, and I take Crosscut, Film Finger, and People.
She threw all her confits at my face, and the basket into the bargain.
In the meantime, the guests wandered to and fro, conversing, admiring the paintings on the walls, flirting behind fans, consuming confits, tartlets, and wine, and disappearing at more or less discreet intervals into the odd little curtained alcoves.
At the long Norwegian banquet table, Victor Tremont and his four guests dined on a feast that could have come from Valhalla itself--- wild duck confit with shitaki mushrooms, poached local lake trout, and venison shot by Tremont himself, with braised Belgian endive, potatoes dauphin, and a Rhone Hermitage reduction sauce.
Another burner, my front right, will be used mostly by him as well, to sauté lardons for frisée salads, to sear tidbits of hanger steak for onglet salad, for sautéing diced potatoes in duck fat for the confit de canard, and the cockles-which will leave me, most likely, with three full-time burners with which to prepare a wide range of dishes, any one of which alone could require two burners for a single plate.