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- verb Present participle of
tenderise .
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Examples
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Leiths use pineapple juice in their marinade, which contains bromelain, an enzyme well known for its tenderising effect on meat, but, although this does work, I'm not keen on the slightly tropical flavour it gives the ribs.
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It's tough as old boots, but so perfectly fatty that when sympathetically cooked the fat melts through the meat, tenderising and oozing flavour throughout the flesh.
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Das stretched and massaged his tiny protege before a race in a manner that was halfway between a caress and a tenderising of a nice piece of meat – from a cash cow, perhaps.
TV review: Leaving Amish Paradise; Kidult: Marathon Boy 2011
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Leiths use pineapple juice in their marinade, which contains bromelain, an enzyme well known for its tenderising effect on meat, but, although this does work, I'm not keen on the slightly tropical flavour it gives the ribs.
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Note: some accepted octopus tenderising techniques may offend.
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Now large specimens of octopus have a bit of a reputation of being a bit tough and chewy, personally I think it's part of the charm, but others are not so forgiving and over the centuries ways have been devised to tenderise the tentacles, this from La Tant Claire by Pierre Koffmann as he observed a fisherman in the act of tenderising an octopus...
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Now large specimens of octopus have a bit of a reputation of being a bit tough and chewy, personally I think it's part of the charm, but others are not so forgiving and over the centuries ways have been devised to tenderise the tentacles, this from La Tant Claire by Pierre Koffmann as he observed a fisherman in the act of tenderising an octopus...
At My Table 2007
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Do you think anyone is going to believe you when you say, "But doctor, I was just tenderising my octopus..."
At My Table 2007
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At cooking school I learnt to bash them over the head with a meat tenderising mallet - the stone comes right out with ease then.
Really Stuffed Sicilian Olives Haalo 2007
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Do you think anyone is going to believe you when you say, "But doctor, I was just tenderising my octopus..."
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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