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  • noun a vegetable pea eaten when immature

Etymologies

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French manger + tout (eat all)

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Examples

  • Sometimes a raw ingredient will taste fantastic on its own, just because it is fresh: a strawberry picked from a hedgerow; a mangetout pea picked and eaten raw; an oyster opened and slurped down with its juice.

    Ultimate Freshness 2009

  • Sometimes a raw ingredient will taste fantastic on its own, just because it is fresh: a strawberry picked from a hedgerow; a mangetout pea picked and eaten raw; an oyster opened and slurped down with its juice.

    Ultimate Freshness 2009

  • With all the aromatics that make this type of Thai soup so delicious, plus mangetout snow peas, spinach, spring onions, and coriander leaf, this sounds like a complete winner.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Kalyn Denny 2007

  • With all the aromatics that make this type of Thai soup so delicious, plus mangetout snow peas, spinach, spring onions, and coriander leaf, this sounds like a complete winner.

    Two Years and a Lot of Doubly Delicious Recipes with Vegetables and Herbs: The Recap Kalyn Denny 2007

  • A salad of mangetout, peas and asparagus flavoured with pink peppercorns, tarragon leaves and diced preserved lemon £6 was ultra-fresh and zingy, though.

    Evening Standard - Home David Sexton 2011

  • Lunches consisted of high pH-friendly houmus, alfalfa-based salads or pea soup, while afternoon snacks were crunchy mangetout or almonds.

    Evening Standard - Home Victoria Stewart 2011

  • Take the mangetout from their bowl and plunge into boiling salted water for five seconds, then return to the iced water.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Tabasco sauce grated zest of 1/2 a lemon 4 tbsp groundnut oil 1 large carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks 125g mangetout 125g oyster mushrooms

    WN.com - Articles related to My year of eating ethically 2010

  • Ingredients: 450g Salmon fillet, skinned 6 tbsp Japanese teriyaki sauce 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar 1 tbsp tomato paste dash of Tabasco sauce grated zest of 1/2 a lemon 4 tbsp groundnut oil 1 large carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks 125g mangetout 125g oyster mushrooms

    WN.com - Articles related to My year of eating ethically 2010

  • There are fears that British supermarket shelves could soon be empty of green beans, mangetout and sugar snap peas, among the main vegetables sent from Kenya each day.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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  • a variety of pea with an edible pod.

    — ORIGIN French, ‘eat all’.

    November 3, 2007

  • "... with more cash in our pockets, ingredients went upmarket in the closing years of the decade: celeriac and mangetout ... herbs in packets, stuffed aubergine, banoffee pie and then grilled goats'-cheese salad, exotic mushrooms...."

    --Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 370

    January 19, 2017