caramelizeverb
UK usually caramelise uk/ˈkær.ə.məl.aɪz/us/ˈkɑːr.məl.aɪz/[ I ] If sugar caramelizes, it turns into caramel.
[ T ] to cook a food with sugar so that the food becomes sweet and often brown:
caramelized onions/nuts
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- carve
- clarified
- concoct
- cube
- dice
- fold
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- marinate
- salt
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
- whip sth up
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