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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shallot
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
add
▪ Melt the butter in the same pot over medium heat. Add the shallots and cook until softened, about 1 minute.
▪ When the oil is smoking hot add the ginger, shallots and crabmeat.
▪ Skim off excess fat from pan, and add shallots, juniper berries, and bay leaves.
▪ Heat, add shallots and mushrooms, and saute until very lightly browned.
▪ Meanwhile melt butter in medium pan and add carrots, shallot and mushrooms.
▪ Heat gently until jelly melts. Add reserved zest and shallots and mix thoroughly.
▪ Remove and drain on paper towels. Add shallots to bacon drippings and saute until golden, about 10 minutes.
▪ In a saucepan, heat oil. Add shallots and garlic cloves and saute until lightly browned.
chop
▪ Saute a selection of mushrooms with butter and chopped shallots and garlic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A separate sauce is made by sauteing the duck liver with shallots, carrots, herbs, and dry sherry.
▪ Add some celery and apple to the shallot dressing and spoon around the guinea fowl terrine.
▪ Add the shallots or salad onions to the remaining butter in the pan and cook until just soft.
▪ In same pan, lightly brown shallots, garlic, and onions in oil remaining in pan.
▪ Sauce: place the chopped shallots in a pan and add the vinegar, thyme and bay leaf.
▪ Saute until shallots are soft but not browned.
▪ Skim off excess fat from pan, and add shallots, juniper berries, and bay leaves.
▪ Wine acidity, he explains, is swallowed up by the natural sweetness of the shallots.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
shallot

Rocambole \Roc"am*bole\, n. [F.] [Written also rokambole.] (Bot.) A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and Allium Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shallot

"small onion," 1660s, shortened from eschalot, from French échalote, from Middle French eschalotte, from Old French eschaloigne, from Vulgar Latin *escalonia (see scallion).

Wiktionary
shallot

n. 1 A vegetable in the onion family. 2 # ''Allium ascalonium''. 3 # ''Allium oschaninii''. 4 # Any small onion. 5 # (context New Orleans English) A scallion

WordNet
shallot
  1. n. aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion

  2. type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning [syn: eschalot, multiplier onion, Allium cepa aggregatum, Allium ascalonicum]

  3. small mild-flavored onion- or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning

Wikipedia
Shallot

The shallot is a type of onion, specifically a botanical variety of the species Allium cepa.

The shallot was formerly classified as a separate species, A. ascalonicum, a name now considered a synonym of the currently accepted name.

Shallot (disambiguation)

Shallot may refer to:

  • Shallot, a widely cultivated plant producing an edible bulb
  • Persian shallot, a plant native to Central Asia with edible bulbs sometimes gathered in the wild
  • Part of the sound producing mechanism in a reed pipe of a pipe organ

Shallot may be a misspelling of:

  • Shalott, an island in the poem " The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Tennyson

Usage examples of "shallot".

Gash two cleaned fresh mackerel, and put in a buttered baking-dish with two tablespoonfuls of white wine, three tablespoonfuls of mushroom liquor, a chopped shallot, and salt and pepper to season.

Add finely chopped shallot, two eggs, salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg.

Fry in butter two tablespoonfuls of minced parsley and one tablespoonful of chopped mushrooms and shallots.

Fry in olive-oil half a cupful of chopped mushrooms, four chopped shallots, a sprig of thyme, and a bay-leaf.

Add a chopped clove of garlic, a shallot, a quarter of a pound of mushrooms, and salt, pepper, and minced parsley to season.

Rub with butter, sprinkle with chopped mushrooms, shallots, and parsley, lemon-juice, and minced garlic.

Lunch also bustles with locals who come for simple, fresh fare like grilled hamburgers with Gorgonzola, grilled-chicken Caesar salad, roast lamb sandwich with minted mayo and roasted shallots on rosemary bread, and lentil bulgur orzo salad.

After some experimentation with programming, I started the chicken stock defrosting, then minced a mountain of shallots, carrots, and celery.

The overly large steaks with shallots and mountains of garlic mashed potatoes went to waste.

A long folding table has been covered with a red tablecloth and is jammed with pans and plates and bowls of roasted hazelnuts and lobster and oyster bisques and celery root soup with apples and Beluga caviar on toast points and creamed onions and roast goose with chestnut stung and caviar in puff pastry and vegetable tarts with tapenade, roast duck and roast rack of veal with shallots and gnocchi gratin and vegetable strudel and Waldorf salad and scallops and bruschetta with mascarpone and white truffles and green chili soufflé and roast partridge with sage, potatoes and onion and cranberry sauce, mincemeat pies and chocolate truffles and lemon soufflé tarts and pecan tarte Tatin.

The buffet consisted of Beluga Malossol caviar, pate de campagne, smoked Scottish salmon, oysters on the half shell, backfin lump crabmeat, crudites with a shallot vinaigrette dressing, and Cristal champagne.

There are a lot of ways to make demi-glace, but I recommend you simply take your already reduced meat stock, add some red wine, toss in some shallots and fresh thyme and a bay leaf and peppercorns, and slowly, slowly simmer it and reduce it again until it coats a spoon.

A long folding table has been covered with a red tablecloth and is jammed with pans and plates and bowls of roasted hazelnuts and lobster and oyster bisques and celery root soup with apples and Beluga caviar on toast points and creamed onions and roast goose with chestnut stung and caviar in puff pastry and vegetable tarts with tapenade, roast duck and roast rack of veal with shallots and gnocchi gratin and vegetable strudel and Waldorf salad and scallops and bruschetta with mascarpone and white truffles and green chili soufflé.

A preparation in use in the West Indies called Mandram, for weak digestion and loss of appetite, is made of thinly sliced and unskinned cucumbers, shallots, chives, or onions, lemon or lime juice, Madeira, and a few pods of bird pepper well mashed up in the liquids.

These guys don't get hundreds of hungry young culinarians banging on their kitchen doors, begging for the privilege of mopping their brows and peeling their shallots just because they have their names stitched on their jackets.