1 to put vegetables or similar foods into boiling water for a few minutes to make them white, remove the skins, get rid of strong flavours, or prepare them for freezing:
blanched almonds
3 to cook food, esp. vegetables, in boiling water for a very brief time:
The issue of the sheer waste of energy literally going up the chimney needs to be recognised and blanched at.
Although the prescription covered vascular effects—blanching and numbness—it should also cover the well recognised neurological effects.
All of them have an ordinary branch, but a great many of them have two blanches.
We all blanched, and he added.
He visibly blanched: he definitely whitened.
They blanched and changed the subject.
Blanching or soaking and blanching as a processing step before freezing can extend the freezer life up to 12 months.
Following the marination, the duck is quickly blanched in hot water to tighten the skin, and then towel and air dried.
