A French soup of meat, typically boiled beef, and vegetables cooked in a large pot.
‘a brasserie menu including pot-au-feu and pig's trotters’
‘he dished up a heart-stopping pot-au-feu’
‘The simplest consommé of all, in France, is the broth from pot-au-feu.’
‘Soups, rabbit dishes, and dishes such as pot-au-feu, coq au vin, and blanquettes are often requested by pickers nostalgic for an era when long, slow cooking was the norm.’
‘The legendary peasant woman kept a pot-au-feu or bouillon pot on her hearth and, myth has it, threw into it whatever she had around to stew for the day's meal.’
‘And while there, was it possible she had her cooks rustle up some Scotch broth which, in turn, influenced the French chefs who came up with pot-au-feu?’
‘Chicken pot-au-feu ($21 for two, $11 for a half-order) boasts an intensely flavored broth almost sweet with the essence of chicken.’
Origin
French, literally ‘pot on the fire’.
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