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DictionaryjulienneMatchstick-shaped food preparation
adjective / verb / noun

julienne

joo-lee-EN/ˌdʒuːliˈɛn/

Food cut into thin, matchstick-shaped strips.

I julienne the carrots into thin strips for the salad.

Close view of a cook slicing stacked carrot planks lengthwise into fine, straight matchstick strips.
Etymology
julienneFrenchsoup in Julien’s manner

French julienne named a vegetable soup “in the manner of Julien,” presumably an otherwise unknown cook. The name later applied to vegetables cut into thin strips, giving the verb its food-cutting meaning.

In context

The Wooded Beardsman65:51
they julienne them and put them in a salad and I think they probably do give you a lot of gas that way but we've typically cooked ours in a stew like this or our favorite thing
First OVERNIGHT at the CABIN! | THIS MAN Only Eats Wild Food! Ep5

More examples

  • A julienne of zucchini cooks in just a minute.
  • She adds julienne carrots to the soup.
  • We topped the noodles with julienned cucumber.

Forms

julienne · juliennes · julienned · julienning

Similar words

slice
Produces flat pieces rather than uniformly thin, matchstick-shaped strips.
shred
Produces narrow, often irregular strips rather than neat matchsticks.