Rillettes Definition

rə-lĕts
noun
Bits of meat, fish, or fowl, esp. pork, cooked in seasoned fat, mashed into a paste, and preserved in the fat for use as a spread for bread.
Webster's New World

A dish of meat cooked in fat then shredded and served in a ramekin.

Wiktionary

Origin of Rillettes

  • French from diminutive of Old French rille long strip of fat pork dialectal variant of earlier reille shingle, plank from Latin rēgula straight piece of wood, lath reg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French.

    From Wiktionary

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