adjective
- partially boiled or cooked briefly in boiling water
Usage: cooking
Examples
- The parboiled potatoes were then roasted in the oven.
- She used parboiled rice for the quick dinner recipe.
- The vegetables were parboiled before being added to the stir-fry.
- Parboiled pasta cooks faster when reheated.
- The chef parboiled the broccoli to maintain its bright green color.
- Parboiled grains retain more nutrients than fully processed ones.