Definitions

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  • noun an Italian soup made by dribbling a mixture of cheese and beaten egg into hot broth
  • noun an Italian ice cream with chocolate shavings

Etymologies

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Italian

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Examples

  • If you keep the heat very low, the whites won’t start to coagulate into long strands, as they do in stracciatella, egg-drop soup (and as they did on my first try).

    Simple Pleasures 2008

  • If you keep the heat very low, the whites won’t start to coagulate into long strands, as they do in stracciatella, egg-drop soup (and as they did on my first try).

    Simple Pleasures 2008

  • The raviolini was the winner (my winner -- but I also believe the real winner of the text voting) because the stracciatella, though amazing, was less impressive as a dish -- it was just fabulous cheese with olive oil and bread which is hard to miss with.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Reporting Back From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Hand-pulled stracciatella cheese The Italian eatery serves a basket of sweet breads $15 that proves the bakery here stands alone.

    Relationship With Food 2011

  • And also try the hand-pulled stracciatella cheese $9.

    Relationship With Food 2011

  • The best two things were Jonathon Sawyer's raviolini and Missy Robin's stracciatella, with Roy Choi's meatball coming in as a close third.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Reporting Back From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • Raves for the stracciatella, the pollo alla diavola (crispy-skinned chicken with zingy chili flavoring) and the malfatti al Maialino (suckling pig ragu) with arugula.

    Fact And Comment 2010

  • Raves for the stracciatella, the pollo alla diavola (crispy-skinned chicken with zingy chili flavoring) and the malfatti al Maialino (suckling pig ragu) with arugula.

    Restaurants: Go, Consider, Stop 2010

  • The best two things were Jonathon Sawyer's raviolini and Missy Robin's stracciatella, with Roy Choi's meatball coming in as a close third.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Reporting Back From The Food & Wine Classic in Aspen 2010

  • Raves for the stracciatella, the pollo alla diavola (crispy-skinned chicken with zingy chili flavoring) and the malfatti al Maialino (suckling pig ragu) with arugula.

    Fact And Comment 2010

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  • Both a type of soup using eggs (beaten into the liquid) and grated parmesan cheese, and a type of ice cream veined with chocolate.

    January 11, 2008

  • OOH! I totally forgot about this word, and the food for that matter! And now I'm going to go get lunch.

    January 11, 2008

  • And both delicious.

    January 11, 2008