verb / adjective / noun · neutral
roast
UK/rəʊst/US/roʊst/ROAST
to cook food (especially meat) by dry heat, often in an oven; a dish cooked this way
Examples
“They roasted the chicken for Sunday lunch.”
“Roast vegetables are my favourite side dish.”
“Make sure you roast the potatoes until they are golden.”
Band 8 sentence
“For the dinner party I roasted a shoulder of lamb slowly for four hours so it remained tender and richly flavoured.”
Collocations
- roast the chicken at 200°C
- roast dinner / roast potatoes
- a roast beef
Word family
Common mistakes
I will roast the cake.→I will bake the cake.
Roast the chicken on 180°C.→Roast the chicken at 180°C.
The meat is very roasted.→The meat is very well roasted / The meat is overcooked.
Say it for a higher band
5cook→6bake→7+roast
Synonyms
bake
grill
Easily confused
bake
“She prefers to bake bread at home rather than buy it from a shop.”
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