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French meat vocabulary: everyday cuts at the butcher's
Twelve everyday butcher's purchases in French with pictures: steak haché, côtelettes, cuisses de poulet and more, plus how to ask for quantities.
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In short
At la boucherie, the words you'll use most are le steak haché (beef burger patty), la viande hachée (mince), les côtelettes (chops), le rôti (roast), les cuisses de poulet (chicken legs) and les blancs de poulet (chicken breasts).
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How do you ask for meat at a French butcher’s?
| French | English |
|---|---|
| pour quatre personnes | for four people |
| cinq cents grammes de… | 500 g of… |
| une tranche fine / épaisse | a thin / thick slice |
| Vous pouvez le couper ? | Can you cut it? |
| Vous pouvez enlever le gras ? | Can you remove the fat? |
| C'est pour un barbecue. | It's for a barbecue. |
Butchers often ask C'est pour combien de personnes ? and then choose the amount for you. For steak, you may also hear the cooking question at a restaurant: saignant (rare), à point (medium), bien cuit (well done).
- un steak hachisun steak haché
Haché means minced. Hachis is a dish, as in hachis parmentier.
- deux poulets cuissesdeux cuisses de poulet
French puts the cut first, then de + animal.