rissole
noun/ˈrɪsəʊl/
/ˈrɪsəʊl/
- meat that has been cut up into very small pieces, made into a small flat mass or ball and fried. It is sometimes covered with breadcrumbs or, in the US, with pastry before it is cooked.Topics Foodc2Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from Old French dialect ruissole, from a feminine form of late Latin russeolus ‘reddish’, from Latin russus ‘red’.
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