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Concassé, from the
Concassé, from the French
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''concasser'', "to crush or grind", is a cooking
Cooking, cookery, or culinary arts is the art, science and craft of using heat to prepare food for consumption. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in vario ...
term meaning to rough chop any ingredient
An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a mixture (in a general sense). For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Many commercial product (business), products contain secret ingredie ...
, usually vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the edible flower, flowers, ...
s or fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.
Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in partic ...
. This term is particularly applied to tomato
The tomato is the edible berry of the plant ''Solanum lycopersicum'', commonly known as the tomato plant. The species originated in western South America, Mexico, and Central America. The Mexican Nahuatl word gave rise to the Spanish word ...
es, where tomato concassé is a tomato that has been peeled, seeded (seeds and skins removed), and chopped to specified dimensions. Specified dimensions can be rough chop, small dice, medium dice, or large dice.
The most popular use for tomato concassé is in an Italian bruschetta
Bruschetta (, , ) is an antipasto (starter dish) from Italy consisting of grilled bread rubbed with garlic and topped with olive oil and salt. Variations may include toppings of tomato, vegetables, beans, cured meat, or cheese. In Italy, brusche ...
, typically small dice concasse mixed with olive oil and fresh basil, and sometimes other ingredients such as onion, olives, or anchovies.
Tomato concassé is also added to Béarnaise sauce
Béarnaise sauce (; ) is a sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is widely regarded as the "child" of the Hollandaise sauce. The difference is only in the flavoring: Béarnaise ...
to produce Choron sauce Choron may refer to:
* Choron string drum from the middle ages
* Choroń, village in Poland
* Choron (dance)
* Professeur Choron, French writer and publisher
* Alexandre-Étienne Choron
Alexandre-Étienne Choron (21 October 1771 – 29 June ...
which is commonly served with lobster dishes.
See also
*Brunoise
Brunoise () is a culinary knife cut in which the food item is first julienned and then turned a quarter turn and diced, producing cubes of about or less on each side. In France, a "brunoise" cut is a smaller 1 to 2 mm. Some typical vegetab ...
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