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Concasse, from the French 'concasser', to crush or grind, is a cooking term meaning to rough chop any ingredient, usually vegetables. This term is most specifically applied to tomatoes, with tomato concasse being a tomato that has been peeled, seeded (seeds and skins removed), and chopped to specified dimensions. Specified dimensions can be rough chop, small dice, medium dice, or large dice.
The most popular use for tomato concasse is with an italian bruschetta, typically small diced concasse mixed with olive oil and fresh basil along with any other ingriedients eg onion, olives, anchovies etc.
Tomato concasse is also added to a Hollandaise sauce to produce a Choron sauce, served nicely with lobster dishes.
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