fricasseed

Cut up, simmered

Fricasseed means cut into pieces, browned, and stewed in a sauce—the treatment given to chicken or rabbit in the classic dish fricassee.

The word appears almost exclusively as a past participle: fricasseed chicken, fricasseed rabbit.

Figuratively, to be fricasseed is to be torn apart or destroyed: The defense attorney fricasseed the witness on cross-examination.

method

simmered

Cooked at low heat

slow-cooked · tender · moist · succulent · juicy · cut-up · browned · covered · pieces · portions

sauce

cream

Rich milk fat

broth · flour · gravy · stock · reduction · thickened · liaison

aromatics

shallots

Mild clustered cooking bulbs

tarragon · thyme · parsley · carrots · celery · leeks · chervil · nutmeg · cloves

protein

chicken

Domestic fowl for eating

guinea-fowl · turkey · pork · lamb · pheasant · squab · capon · offal · sweetbreads

Opposites
cooking method

fricasseedgrilled

Cooked on metal bars

roasted · broiled · barbecued · deep-fried · rotisseried

food preparation state

fricasseedraw

In original state

uncooked · fresh · unprepared · live · whole

Phrases
Family

fricassee, fricassees

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G