How to Use quenelle in a Sentence

quenelle

noun
  • The cod’s flesh, meanwhile, becomes fish cakes as fluffy as French quenelles.
    — Fortune, 11 Aug. 2019
  • For example, his version of quenelles, poached pike dumplings, has a crispy shell.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2019
  • Plate and finish with quenelles of tyrokafteri.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The matzoh quenelles end up light and crispy on the outside and custard-rich within.
    — Leah Koenig, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Use 2 spoons to form the frozen yogurt into quenelle shapes, if desired, and set one or more in each bowl.
    — ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • In one dish, a healthy quenelle of caviar is perched upon an impossibly light dashi meringue shaped like a fish.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The quenelle, an ivory round of delicate custard formed from fish and cream, dares you not to take its photo.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2022
  • French dishes include pigs’ feet with caviar, pike quenelles, fish stew bourride and poached chicken for two to four.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 7 June 2016
  • Fifty dollars buys you half a perfect avocado with perfect grill marks, garnished with creme fraiche and a quenelle of caviar.
    — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2024
  • They’re filled with potato, fontina and mascarpone and served with razor clams and a substantial quenelle of caviar.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 July 2022
  • Filet of sole meunière with brown butter and lemon, quenelles de brochet, and the floating island dessert of custard and meringue.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 20 Mar. 2018
  • What appeared to be a chunk of corn on the cob was in fact a sweet, tender replica made of corn custard, served with a quenelle of caviar, gleaming with pecan oil.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Her chicken soup was the color of sunlight, her gefilte fish was as delicate as a French quenelle, her latkes were evenly browned.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Small plates like oysters Rockefeller and crispy chicken liver pâté quenelle are also available.
    — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This dessert, a quenelle of red berry sorbet perched on top of mascarpone tinged green with basil oil, is very factory pomo with its straight angles and neon coloring.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The vegetarian kare-kare, for instance, swaps lamb belly with halloumi, served with a round of paratha flatbread to swipe through a soft quenelle of defining peanut sauce.
    — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • They’re plated exactly the same, with little quenelles and then stacks of vegetable batons precisely sliced to the same height, but the flavors have little in common.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Dine on festive menus of authentic Andalusian cuisine such as scallop carpaccio or crayfish quenelles and sweets like the honey nougat turron.
    — Teresa Bergen, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Classics like pike quenelles, roast chicken for two with foie gras stuffing, leg of lamb with potato gratin, and several seasonal vegetable preparations bolster the menu.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • One dish looks like a donut decorated with dots of verjus gel, halved grapes and blueberries, pistachios, two delicate leaves of glacier lettuce and a quenelle of apricot jam.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
  • There are no supplements or add-ons available; everyone gets the same dishes, save for birthday or anniversary celebrants who might get an extra quenelle of ice cream for dessert.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Similar to gnudi, the quenelles feature impossibly thin skins that collapse into pillows of ricotta cheese.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Sneed had no qualms with the other courses for the evening’s meal, including a quail egg buried in buttery brioche and topped with an intemperate amount of osetra caviar, and a silky corn soup studded with fresh lobster and lobster quenelles.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
  • El Bulli’s chicken curry featured a quenelle of curry ice cream and a cold curry-flavor granita in a pool of coconut milk, with the protein only present in a last-minute savory drizzle of chicken demi-glace.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Her carrot cake, with its undulating ribbon of cheesecake ganache (no doubt the inspiration for the foie gras dish) separating squares of cake and two quenelles of carrot-pineapple sorbet, was part of the original menu and is still a hit.
    — Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
  • McGarry and a few sous chefs—wearing, curiously, black berets—stand around an island in the back of the dining room, each carefully daubing sauce onto a plate or gently rubbing the back of a spoon to release a perfect quenelle of ice cream.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Danny’s quenelle is made of scallop and zucchini mousse and is served with zucchini batons and green chartreuse; Rasika’s quenelle is made of daal and comes with beet and carrot batons and rasam, an Indian soup that Rasika compares to a consomme.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Forget about fashionable foodie trends, the cuisine here remains a faithful homage to the master, perfectly reproducing his signature dishes like plump pike quenelle dumplings in a rich creamy Nantua sauce, succulent beef Rossini topped with foie gras or a tasty black truffle soup.
    — John Brunton, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026

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