Puree vs. Sauce — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Puree and Sauce
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Puree
To rub through a strainer or process (food) in a blender.
Sauce
In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish.
Puree
Food prepared by straining or blending.
Sauce
A flavorful liquid or semisolid condiment or mixture of ingredients served as a topping or other accompaniment to food.
Puree
A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.
Tomato sauce is generally a puree.
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Sauce
Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
Puree
A type of unleavened bread from South Asia.
Sauce
Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
Puree
To crush or grind food into a puree.
Sauce
(Informal) Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
Puree
A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.
Sauce
(Slang) Alcoholic liquor.
Puree
Food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender
Sauce
To season or flavor with sauce.
Puree
Rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender;
Puree the vegetables for the baby
Sauce
To add piquancy or zest to.
Sauce
(Informal) To be impertinent or impudent to.
Sauce
A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.
Apple sauce; mint sauce
Sauce
Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:
[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce
Sauce
Alcohol, booze.
Maybe you should lay off the sauce.
Sauce
(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.
Sauce
(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Sauce
(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.
Sauce
Vegetables.
Sauce
Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Sauce
To add sauce to; to season.
Sauce
To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.
Sauce
To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Sauce
(colloquial) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
Sauce
(slang) To send or hand over.
Sauce
A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc.
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
Sauce
Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
Sauce
Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.
Sauce
Sauciness; impertinence.
Sauce
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Sauce
To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
Sauce
To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to.
Earth, yield me roots;Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palateWith thy most operant poison!
Sauce
To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.
Sauce
To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
I'll sauce her with bitter words.
Sauce
Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
Sauce
Behave saucy or impudently towards
Sauce
Dress (food) with a relish
Sauce
Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting;
Sauce the roast
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