Fried food is food cooked in a pan that contains hot fat or oil.
Our fried foods are cooked in olive oil.
To make the fried prawns, cook them in a shallow pan of oil with garlic and chilli.
The fried vegetables are too oily.
Related wordsCompare fried with deep-fried, which means cooked in a deep pan that contains a large amount of fat or oil.
Examples of 'fried' in a sentence
fried
In the Oasis it was steamy, tropical, swirling with the exotic odours of chips, vinegar and fried black pudding.
Adam, Paul A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH (2001)
Trembler tutted and asked for more eggs, bacon, and perhaps just six more slices of fried liver, please.
Gash, Jonathan THE TARTAN RINGERS (2001)
In other languages
fried
British English: fried /fraɪd/ ADJECTIVE
If food is fried, it is cooked in a pan containing hot fat.
...fried fish.
American English: fried
Arabic: مَقْلِيّ
Brazilian Portuguese: frito
Chinese: 油炸的
Croatian: pržen
Czech: smažený
Danish: stegt
Dutch: gebakken
European Spanish: frito
Finnish: paistettu
French: frit
German: gebraten
Greek: τηγανητός
Italian: fritto
Japanese: 油で揚げた
Korean: 튀긴
Norwegian: stekt
Polish: smażony
European Portuguese: frito
Romanian: prăjit
Russian: жареный
Latin American Spanish: frito
Swedish: stekt
Thai: ซึ่งทอดในน้ำมัน
Turkish: kızarmış
Ukrainian: смажений
Vietnamese: rán
All related terms of 'fried'
fry
When you fry food, you cook it in a pan that contains hot fat or oil.
fried egg
A fried egg is an egg cooked in oil or fat .
pan-fried
Pan-fried food is food that has been cooked in hot fat or oil in a frying pan.
deep-fried
(of food) cooked in sufficient hot fat to cover the food entirely
stir-fried
to cook (small pieces of meat , vegetables , etc) rapidly by stirring them in a wok or frying pan over a high heat : used esp for Chinese food
chicken-fried
(of meats , esp steak ) coated in seasoned flour and pan-fried
country-fried
(of meats, esp chicken ) dipped in a mixture of flour and breadcrumbs and deep-fried
fried potato
Fried potatoes are pieces of potato cooked in oil or fat .
Southern-fried
(of meats, esp chicken ) dipped in a mixture of flour and breadcrumbs and deep-fried
fry-up
If you fry up food, you fry it, especially in order to make a quick , casual meal .
deep-fries
to cook (fish, potatoes , etc) in sufficient hot fat to cover the food entirely
deep-fry
If you deep-fry food, you fry it in a large amount of fat or oil.
pan-fry
to cook or fry in a frying pan
stir-fries
to cook (small pieces of meat, vegetables , etc) rapidly by stirring them in a wok or frying pan over a high heat: used esp for Chinese food
stir-fry
If you stir-fry vegetables, meat, or fish , you cook small pieces of them quickly by stirring them in a small quantity of very hot oil . This method is often used in Chinese cookery .
chicken-fried steak
a cheap cut of beefsteak that is fried in batter
French fried potatoes
a more formal name for chips
flash-fry
to fry something very quickly by placing it in a pan on a very high heat
home fries
raw or boiled potatoes , sliced and fried in a frying pan
cottage fries
potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried