rillettes


ril·lettes

R5269650 (rə-lĕts′)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A pâté made of pork, goose, or other meat that is chopped, seasoned, and slowly cooked in fat.
[French, from diminutive of Old French rille, long strip of fat pork, dialectal variant of earlier reille, shingle, plank, from Latin rēgula, straight piece of wood, lath; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

rillettes

(rɪˈlɛts; riːˈjɛt) pl npotted meat, usually pork, similar to pâté