English translation: cubed pork / cubed sauteeing pork
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French to English translations [PRO] Science - Food & Dairy / food science
French term or phrase:Sauté
This appears in a list of pork cuts or ways of preparing pork in France, specifically. The closest I can come would be to use the same word, but it is a cooking method (in the US) not a name for a cut or meat or part of an animal.
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and enjoyed the Tagine... cubed meat is more generally for slow cooking: braising at the least, if not for casseroling. Sautéeing is of course a fast method of cooking. So, although cubed meat can no doubt be used for sautéeing, it's more likely to be braised, casseroled or stewed. The question remains: can sliced meat be sautéed? My guess (and it is only a guess!) is that it can be, which would imply that there's no clear connection between "sauté" and the actual cut of the meat, ie, "cubed/diced"
Sorry Carol, but UK supermarkets do say how the meat is cut. For example, my local Sainsbury's sells diced pork leg/shoulder, diced lamb and diced beef clearly labeled as such. It is probably similar in the US, but 'cubed' may be more common than 'diced'. http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=125821...
No, in English supermarkets, it usually says, eg, "braising steak", "casserole beef", "steak for grilling", etc (as I believe I already mentioned) - indicating the recommended method of cooking - on various cuts and shapes of meat. This would include cubed meat, but also other shapes such as slices, from various parts of the animal. Sauteing is of course another method of cooking, although I've never seen it on meat labels in UK supermarkets, but then, I've never looked for it!
But you wouldn't need a label to tell you whether or not the meat has been cubed - that is pretty easy to tell just by looking at it!
It's fairly clear from the question that the subject matter here is raw meat. So in English (at least UK English) sauté is completely inappropriate. In French supermarkets you can buy bubble-packed diced meat labeled 'sauté' which, in English would be labelled 'diced veal', 'diced pork' etc. Cubed is certainly understandable, but I don't recall seeing a supermarket label in the UK for 'cubed' meat.
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Yes, you're right: I should have put quotes on cut... "Sauté" sold in France, as you say, doesn't refer to a specific butcher's cut, but to chunks of raw meat from cheaper cuts that are tender enough to be sauteed. (As the list concerns "cuts AND ways of preparing pork", I'm presuming both refer to raw meat.)
that's just meat for sauteing - in this case cubed meat. But sautéed meat doesn't necessarily have to be cubed, at least as far as I know. If I saw sauté on a label for meat, I would assume that this was simply the suggested method of cooking it, as in "frying steak", "braising steak", or "grilling steak", which are often seen on supermarket labels, where they often don't specify the actual cut of the meat, as opposed to the butchers, which will call it "skirt"....etc
Also, potatoes (and other veg) are sautéed
Hi cmw: in your recipe, Rôti simply means a joint - ie, a piece of meat, albeit not a specific cut. However, as far as I know a sauté can't be anything other than a method of cooking (or something that has been sautéed). Ie, veal sauté is veal prepared in this way rather than a special cut of veal.
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