hasselback
verb1
Cooking, Food, Lifestyle To slice (usually a potato or other root vegetable) thinly while leaving the bottom intact.
- When it was cool enough to handle but still hot, I stuffed mine with about a slice and half of bacon that I'd cut into even one-inch squares, letting some of the bacon lay on top of the hasselbacked tater.2014, Jennifer L. S. Pearsall, The Big Book of Bacon: Savory Flirtations, Dalliances, and Indulgences With the Underbelly of the Pig, New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 196:
- Use a knife to cut halfway through the apple halves in thin parallel slices, so that they stay intact. This is hasselbacking.2016, Andrew Tarlow, Dinner at the Long Table, Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 226:
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- You can hasselback any root veg and they look great on the plate.2025, Mariella Frostrup, Belles Berry, Menolicious, London: Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN: