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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
steak tartare
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this was a lifetime away from steak tartare.
▪ I asked the captain if some one in the kitchen could improvise steak tartare, and of course some one could.
▪ I pointed out to him that steak tartare is not a test of a kitchen.
▪ We went to dinner a few more times, always at places that served steak tartare.
▪ When he saw that Rostang had no steak tartare on his menu, he sulked.
WordNet
steak tartare

n. ground beef mixed with raw egg and e.g. onions and capers and anchovies; eaten raw [syn: tartar steak, cannibal mound]

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Steak tartare

Steak tartare is a meat dish made from finely chopped or minced raw beef or horsemeat. It is often served with onions, capers and seasonings (the latter typically incorporating fresh ground pepper and Worcestershire sauce), sometimes with a raw egg yolk, and often on rye bread.

The name tartare is sometimes generalized to other raw meat or fish dishes.

Although less common than the completely raw variety, there is a version served in France of steak tartare called tartare aller-retour. It is a mound of mostly raw steak tartare that is lightly seared on one side of the patty.

Usage examples of "steak tartare".

I was served up with steak tartare once, in the Imperial Hotel in Philadelphia, and there was half a cow's lip in it, complete with hair.

The maitre d' tried to persuade me that it was something called Steak Tartare Napoleone.

I like steak tartare, but Collin seemed to be making a kind of personal statement with wolfing down the raw meat.

And yet he found himself imagining a lovely steak tartare, the way they would serve it at the Palm, one of his favorite restaurants.

He could dance on his toes better than Bojangles Robinson, and his rapier jabs peppered his opponents' faces until they looked like the steak tartare at Mike Lyman's Grill.

A life of steak tartare wasn't too bad if you compared it with a death of stake au naturelle.