[ US /ˈpɑɹˌbɔɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɑːbɔ‍ɪl/ ]
VERB
  1. cook (vegetables) briefly
    Parboil the beans before freezing them
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How To Use parboil In A Sentence

  • In Uzbekistan, critics of the government have the choice of being poached or parboiled.
  • Heraud is a loquacious scribacious little man, of middle age, of parboiled greasy aspect, whom Leigh Hunt describes as “wavering in the most astonishing manner between being Something and Nothing.” The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • Take some potatoes and parboil them (don't boil them long enough to cook them, just to get them halfway there) with a lemon in the water to give them some flavour.
  • I parboiled them in plenty of salted water for seven minutes, and then tossed with some oil (a mix of sunflower and rapeseed - wouldn't use olive for this) and a lot of salt.
  • The only ingredient listed is whole - grain parboiled brown rice. Is that right? Uncle Ben's whole-grain white rice is really brown?
  • But in Lebanon, especially in the villages, people still make it with bulgur, cracked parboiled wheat. Day of Honey
  • Just cut a stick of feta, cover it in spinach (I thawed whole leaf spinach from my freezer – if you use fresh parboil them so they wilt and press out the water), then roll the feta-spinach roll up in the dough triangle. Bento #223 « Were rabbits
  • Kinetics of water diffusion and starch gelatinization during rice parboiling. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • Almost all meals feature plantains (very similar to bananas), which are usually parboiled, sliced, and deep fried.
  • Take Conynges or Kydde and smyte hem on pecys rawe. and frye hem in white grece. take raysouns of Coraunce and fry hem take oynouns parboile hem and hewe hem small and fry hem. take rede wyne suger with powdour of peper. of gynger of canel.salt. and cast þerto. and lat it seeþ with a gode quantite of white grece an serue it forth. The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
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