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ballantine

English translation: a way to prepare food like chicken

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English term or phrase:ballantine
Selected answer:a way to prepare food like chicken
Entered by: Edith Kelly

07:37 Aug 18, 2004
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary
English term or phrase: ballantine
in a restaurant menu:


trio of salmon: poached ballantine, fresh herb gravlax and tartare with quail egg

it's for certain a type of salmon but cannot find any description that can help me find a translation
Elena Ghetti
Italy
Local time: 03:18
It's not a type of salmon but a way of preparation of same
Explanation:
There is quite a well known dish called Chicken Ballantine, here is a recipe


Chicken Ballantine
Tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter, lightly crumbed and fried until golden brown, finished with lemon.

And leave in Inverted Commas in German
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Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 03:18
Grading comment
thanks to both of you
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3 +5It's not a type of salmon but a way of preparation of same
Edith Kelly
2 +3Ballantine
lindaellen (X)


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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
It's not a type of salmon but a way of preparation of same


Explanation:
There is quite a well known dish called Chicken Ballantine, here is a recipe


Chicken Ballantine
Tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter, lightly crumbed and fried until golden brown, finished with lemon.

And leave in Inverted Commas in German


    Reference: http://www.wtlc.com.au/catering/banjosmenu.html
Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 03:18
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thanks to both of you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  eldira: here is another recipe: http://detroit.jewish.com/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=c...
41 mins
  -> Thanks, it's known in Jewish cuisine, I also have it in cookbooks. Maybe the French call it ballotine but it's ballantine in English.
agree  cmwilliams (X): yes, the same as 'ballotine'. http://www.lovelyrecipes.com/recipe.php?recipeid=241,
45 mins
  -> Thanks.
neutral  Tony M: Well, I wouldn't have known that myself, but it sounds just like chicken kiev to me ! Yummy! / 'Neutral', Edith, because clearly I don't have the knowledge to 'agree', and of course, I certainly wouldn't 'DISagree'! Just wanted to add a little comment...
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, but if you do not know it, why a neutral? Have a look at all the other recipes.
agree  Richard Benham: Dusty, Chicken Kiev has oil in the middle, or at least it did when I had in Kiev, and when saw a girl eating it in Lugansk, I asked her, "what's that in the middle?", and she replied, "Oil". And I thought I'd just been sold a dud in Kiev!
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, I love that story.
agree  Asghar Bhatti
6 hrs
  -> Thanks.
agree  Alfa Trans (X)
9 hrs
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Ballantine


Explanation:
For a start, I have many cookbooks and the only reference I found was in Julia Child's "The French Chef" for boned turkey, but spelled "ballotine." It could also be salmon poached in Ballantine Scotch Whiskey, and not a species of salmon. I suspect it is a "house recipe" and therefore you might want to leave it as it is.


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Note added at 7 hrs 11 mins (2004-08-18 14:48:45 GMT)
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I see a problem with poached, since poaching is boiling in a liquid, so it would be difficult to have breading on the meat. The Julia Child\'s turkey version is stuffed and baked, not poached. That is why I wonder if the salmon is actually poached in whiskey (Ballantines).

lindaellen (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Andersen: My Good Housekeeping New Cookery Encyclpædia describes 'ballotine' as above made with meat or fish, with a cross-reference to 'galantine', a very similar dish pressed into a symmetrical shape and glazed in aspic. So that may explain the spelling/confusion
54 mins
agree  Refugio: I found a recipe for salmon that called for a sauce containing "Ballantine's Finest Scotch Whiskey".
18 hrs
agree  nothing: Found this and similar dishes in Scottish restaurant menus. "Ballantine of smoked salmon complimented by guacamole and crips rocket salad". I think it would be a bit difficult to stuff smoked fish, as it is usually smoked in fillets
2 days 6 hrs
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