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act as herbs and impart hearty, strong flavors to the soup or sauce, providing a foil for other strong tasting ingredients such as dried peas and beans or pot roast. Large chunks of vegetables are slow cooked to make flavorful soups and stocks, and are discarded when the vegetables have given up most
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repertoire, may include leeks, parsnips, garlic, tomatoes, shallots, mushrooms, bell peppers, chilies, and ginger, according to the requirements of the regional cuisine or the instructions of the particular chef or recipe. The analogous soffritto (frequently containing parsley) is the basis for many
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may consist of carrots, parsnips or parsley root, celery root or celeriac, leeks, and savoy or white cabbage leaves, and sometimes celery leaves and flat-leaf parsley. The most typical, packaged combination is celery root, parsley root, carrots, and leeks.
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According to the Italian restaurateur Benedetta Vitali, soffritto means 'underfried' and describes it as "a preparation of lightly browned minced vegetables, not a dish by itself". At one time it was called "false
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refers to mirepoix as "a term in use for such a long time that I do not hesitate to use it here". His mirepoix is listed among essences and, indeed, is a meaty concoction (laced with two bottles of
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are browned in fat and used as a basis for a finished sauce. The vegetables may also be cooked long enough until they fall apart, and may become part of the sauce or pureed to form the sauce.
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When the mirepoix is not precooked, the constituent vegetables may be cut to a larger size, depending on the overall cooking time for the dish. Usually the vegetable mixture is
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Traditionally, the weight ratio for mirepoix is 2:1:1 of onions, celery, and carrots; the ratio for bones to mirepoix for stock is 10:1. When making a white stock, or
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Since the 17th century, recipe books in France had been organized so readers could plan meals in accordance with prescribed days for fasting according to the
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Although the cooking technique is probably older, the word mirepoix dates from the 18th century and derives, as do many other appellations in
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felt toward his wife and who had but one claim to fame: he gave his name to a sauce made of all kinds of meat and a variety of seasonings".
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The term is not encountered regularly in French culinary texts until the 19th century, so it is difficult to know what a dish
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serves a similar purpose in Spanish cuisines. In Cajun and Creole cuisine, a mirepoix or (jocularly so-called)
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contains diced ham or pork belly as an additional ingredient. Similar combinations, both in and out of the
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which is a buttery, wine-laced stock garnished with an aromatic mixture of carrots, onions, and a
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The 1938 Larousse (op. cit.) recommends the addition of thyme and powdered bay leaf to the
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onions, garlic and tomato), a variation with tomato paste instead of fresh tomato of the
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is usually cut up to uniform size and boiled to form a flavor base for soups and stews.
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is designed to be brought to the table and eaten with the dish or alone as a side dish.
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Similar flavor bases include the Italian soffritto, the Spanish and Portuguese
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Prepackaged Hungarian leveszöldség (carrot, parsley, parsley root, celeriac)
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or otherwise hard-cooked, because the intention is to sweeten rather than
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and is the flavor base for a wide variety of dishes, including
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Uncooked mirepoix on a cutting board, with the addition of
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are used instead of carrots to maintain the pale color.
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traditional dishes in classic Italian cuisine, and the
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is a combination of onions, celery, and bell peppers.
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Mirepoix (disambiguation)

leeks
/mɪərˈpwɑː/
meer-PWAH
[miʁ.pwa]
diced
butter
sautéed
caramelize
French cuisine
stocks
soups
stews
sauces
onions
carrots
celery
celeriac
tomato purée
sofrito
braised
Eastern Mediterranean
Balkans
parsley root
holy trinity
duxelles
French cuisine
Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix
Mirepoix

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