Definition

Noun: 1. A traditional British dish made by frying leftover cooked cabbage and potatoes together: The name refers to the sounds made during cooking. It sometimes includes leftover meat.

Usage

• As a subject: "Bubble and squeak is a classic way to use up Sunday dinner leftovers."
• As an object: "We made bubble and squeak with the extra vegetables."
• With determiners: "I'll have a portion of that bubble and squeak." / "This bubble and squeak is delicious."

Examples

• "For breakfast, he fried up some bubble and squeak and served it with a poached egg."
• "My grandmother's bubble and squeak always had a bit of chopped roast beef in it."
• "The key to good bubble and squeak is getting the potatoes nicely browned and crispy."

Advanced Usage

• The term is used as a mass noun (uncountable). You do not say "a bubble and squeak" to mean one piece, but rather "a portion of bubble and squeak" or "a cake of bubble and squeak."
• It is often associated with frugality and traditional home cooking.

Variants and Related Words

• Bubble and Squeak (proper noun): The full name of the dish is often treated as a proper compound noun.
• Hash (noun): An American dish with a similar concept of frying chopped leftover meat and potatoes.
• Colcannon (noun): An Irish dish of mashed potatoes with cabbage or kale, which is similar but not fried.

Synonyms

• Fried leftovers (specifically cabbage and potato)
• Vegetable hash

Notes

• "Bubble and squeak" is a fixed phrase. The words are not used separately to describe the dish.
• The name is onomatopoeic, imitating the bubbling and squeaking sounds the ingredients make while frying in the pan.

Noun

1. leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat