compote

/'kɔmpout/

Thân thiện

She serves a bowl of warm apple compote for dessert.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A dessert of stewed or baked fruit: "Compote" refers to a sweet dish made by cooking fruit in a sugar syrup, often served as a dessert or a side dish. The fruit can be fresh, dried, or frozen, and is typically cooked until soft but still holding its shape.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • For dessert, we had a delicious pear and cinnamon compote.
  • She served the roast duck with a side of apple and cranberry compote.

Advanced Usage

• "Fruit compote": This is a common, explicit phrase for the dish, though "compote" alone usually implies fruit.
  • The yogurt was topped with a homemade fruit compote.

Variants and Related Words

• Compotier (n): A dish, often stemmed, used for serving compote or other desserts.
  • The elegant compotier was filled with berry compote.

Synonyms

• Stewed fruit: A very close synonym, describing the same cooking process.
• Fruit preserve: A broader term that includes jams and jellies; compote is a type of preserve with whole or large pieces of fruit in syrup.

Related Phrases

• "Compote of [fruit name]": A standard construction for naming the specific type.
  • The menu featured a compote of summer berries.

Related Idioms

(This word is not commonly used in idiomatic expressions.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. dessert of stewed or baked fruit

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fruit compote