Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The coarser particles produced by milling durum wheat, used especially for making pastas and hot cereals.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The large hard grains retained in the bolting-machine after the fine flour has been passed through it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The purified fine, hard parts of durum wheat, derived mostly from the endosperm, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery, such as in the preparation of Italian pasta.

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  • noun Hard grains of flour left after milling

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of Italian semolino, diminutive of semola, bran, from Latin simila, fine flour, ultimately of Semitic origin; see smd in Semitic roots.]

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Italian semolino

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Examples

  • My Kitchen Lab comments: bee said ... broken wheat may be better for ya than semolina, though, 'cos it; s whole grain, while semolina is not.

    Broken Wheat Idli Anjali 2008

  • Paz, semolina is available even in my obscure neck of the woods.

    Recipe: Rosemary Bread (Ψωμί με Δενδρολίβανο) Laurie Constantino 2007

  • Till all liquids get absorbed and semolina is fluffy.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Anjali 2007

  • Intermittently check if semolina is fluffy and cooked.

    Satyanarayan Prasad Anjali 2007

  • After the semolina is roasted add the hot liquid slowly and keep mixing the semolina so that it does not stick to the vessel and this helps to avoid lumps.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Anjali 2007

  • Till all liquids get absorbed and semolina is fluffy.

    Chow Chow Bhat Anjali 2007

  • When the semolina is lukewarm add the eggs, well beaten, stirring vigorously to incorporate well, until the mixture is again smooth and creamy.

    Pignoli Tart (Torta coi pinoli) « Baking History 2007

  • After the semolina is roasted add the hot liquid slowly and keep mixing the semolina so that it does not stick to the vessel and this helps to avoid lumps.

    Satyanarayan Prasad Anjali 2007

  • Slices of vegetables are smeared with a tasty tamarind paste, then dipped in semolina/rava and shallow-fried: the result is a crisp and delicious side-dish that can turn a simple meal of dal-rice into something quite special.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Nupur 2007

  • Intermittently check if semolina is fluffy and cooked.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Anjali 2007

Comments

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  • makin' pasta!

    February 12, 2007

  • I was fed Health Authority Chicken Supreme and semolina and jam and made to watch television where a woman turned into a spider during the full-moon, hunted respectable citizens, injected them with poison, swathed them in web cocoons and carried them off to her Transylvanian silo.

    - Peter Reading, C, 1984

    August 2, 2008

  • Also semolella.

    August 12, 2021