[
UK
/ɹˈəʊstɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɹoʊstɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹoʊstɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
the slow roasting took several hours
How To Use roasting In A Sentence
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- Acrylamide is produced during cooking, particularly high-temperature processes such as frying and roasting. Times, Sunday Times
- The team was given a roasting by manager Alex Feguson.
- Place the leg in the pot (roasting dish) and perch the rosemary on top.
- Roasting in a convection oven, which circulates hot air over the surface of the food, works beautifully.
- Then place them with the wings in a roasting tin and season with salt and pepper. Times, Sunday Times
- An old woman churns butter, while a woman in the foreground prepares a fowl for roasting.
- By the time a slab of venison was roasting over the coals it was a glowing, glossy tan.
- The violence of the past-specifically, the dreaded practice of necklacing, which mingled the smell of rubber with the ‘sickly stench of roasting human flesh’ has been eliminated.
- Others are trussed up ready for roasting, with marinade flavours from lemon to garlic and herbs injected deep into their flesh.