croquette

as in cake
a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried a fish croquette that tasted more of filler than of fish

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Recent Examples of croquette At the Stock Show over the weekend, a server passed beef oxtail croquettes around to the mingling crowd before Lambert kicked off the evening’s festivities. Miguel Otárola, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025 The Lincoln Park fishmongers here also share their passion for seafood with a robust range of cooking classes covering various seafood dishes, from fish croquettes and salmon picadillo to tuna potstickers and shrimp tom kha soup. Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025 The salmon croquette and the catfish are favorites, but the grits are always the star, arriving shimmering in butter and crowned with a fistful of shrimp. Corina Knoll, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025 There, generous plates of omelets and pancakes were just as popular as shrimp and grits and salmon croquettes. Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for croquette
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Noun
  • Paton last year said the Broncos were preparing a cake when the coach almost, but not quite, triggered a move back on Day 2 of the draft.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Gabriel, especially, was the icing on the cake for those who were baffled that Sanders hadn't gone off the board, as some experts didn’t have him on their top five quarterback rankings heading into the draft.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Fatburger: Fans can get the fast-food chain's Baby Fat burger, made with a 2.5-ounce patty, through June 30 at participating locations, or online at fatburger.com with code BABYFAT5.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The namesake Bad Boy Burger ($11.99) is two quarter-pound patties, bacon, American cheese, Swiss cheese, chili, lettuce, tomato, pickles, ketchup and mustard.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The rise in popularity of condensed soups like cream of mushroom and cream of chicken in the 1960s promised an even easier version of this dish—and many simpler recipes still call for can of Campbell's over some simple cutlets.
    Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Use It To Help Flatten Chicken Breasts Before pounding any meat to create cutlets, use wax paper in between it and your mallet to help avoid any unwanted stickiness and keep it in place.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 6 Apr. 2025

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“Croquette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croquette. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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