blanched
/blæntʃt/
adjective
- Describes food that has been briefly boiled and then cooled in ice water.
- The recipe calls for blanched spinach, squeezed dry.
- She used blanched almonds to make the cake topping.
- Add the blanched broccoli to the stir-fry at the last minute.
- Made pale or white, especially from fear, cold, or lack of light.
- The blanched skin on her hands was a result of the freezing weather.
- The walls were a blanched, faded white from years of sun exposure.
- His blanched face showed how terrified he was.