saute up
B2 neutral separable transitive
In simple words
To cook something fast in a hot pan with a little bit of oil.
Literal meaning: To sauté (a French cooking method) and finish it up — fairly transparent.
Meanings
1 B2 neutral
To cook food by sautéing — using a small amount of fat in a hot pan with quick stirring or tossing.
"Sauté up the onions and garlic until golden before adding the tomatoes."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Informal variant of 'sauté'. Adding 'up' is not standard in formal cooking language but appears in informal recipes and speech. Used in British and American English.
Commonly used with
onions garlic mushrooms vegetables chicken prawns
Forms
Base
saute up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
sautes up
he/she/it
Past simple
sauted up
yesterday
Past participle
sauted up
have + pp
-ing form
sauting up
continuous
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