timbale
Noun: 1. A small pastry shell or cup: A small, cup-shaped container made of pastry, used for holding and baking creamy mixtures of minced foods. 2. An individual serving of food: A dish consisting of minced meat, fish, or other ingredients in a rich, creamy sauce, baked and served in a small pastry mold or timbale shell.
The word "timbale" refers specifically to the edible container or the complete dish baked within it. It describes a prepared food item, not the act of cooking it. * As a container: "She filled each timbale with a mixture of crab and béchamel." * As a complete dish: "For the appetizer, we served a salmon timbale with dill cream."
- The chef prepared individual chicken and mushroom timbales for the dinner party.
- You can use a timbale mold to create elegant, single-serving presentations.
- The recipe calls for baking the spinach and cheese mixture in a timbale until golden brown.
- "Timbale mold": The specific kitchen utensil, often metal, used to shape the pastry or the food mixture into its characteristic cup form.
- Grease the timbale mold well before pressing in the pastry dough.
- Timbale case: Another term for the empty pastry shell.
- Fill the pre-baked timbale cases just before serving.
- Pastry cup/shell: For the container meaning.
- Pâté, terrine: For the dish meaning (though these are typically not served in pastry).
In a musical context (unrelated to the culinary term): * Timbale (noun): A shallow, single-headed drum with a metal shell, used especially in Latin American music. * The percussionist added a rhythm on the timbales.
- small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods
- individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell