raclettes

/rəˈklɛts/
noun
  1. A Swiss dish made by melting cheese and scraping it onto potatoes, pickles, and onions.
    • For the party, she set up a raclette grill so guests could melt their own cheese.
    • We had raclette for dinner, with melted cheese over boiled potatoes.
    • The restaurant serves traditional raclette with cornichons and cured meat.
  2. The special cheese used for making the dish raclette.
    • He bought a half-kilogram of raclette for the fondue night.
    • You need a good wheel of raclette to get that creamy texture.
    • The store sells both cow's milk and goat's milk raclette.
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