egg en cocotte

1. 1.

   egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin

   Synonymsshirred eggbaked egg

   Broaderdish

Questions about egg en cocotte

What does egg en cocotte mean?

egg en cocotte means "egg cooked individually in cream or butter in a small ramekin".

What is another word for egg en cocotte?

Close synonyms include shirred egg, baked egg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is egg en cocotte a common word?

egg en cocotte is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.