Sentence examples for barely tender from inspiring English sources

The vegetables should be barely tender.

Cook until bright green and barely tender.

Boil beans until just barely tender.

Boil uncovered until rice is barely tender, about 10 minutes.

As for the vegetables, sauté them in a large skillet until they're just barely tender.

Put the potatoes in boiling salted water and cook about 10 minutes, until barely tender.

Steam until barely tender-crisp, about 10 minutes.

Bring to barely a boil over medium heat; cook until just tender when pierced with the tip of a sharp knife.

And it's not like Titcoin, a rather obscure porn-inspired cryptocurrency, is going to be anybody's barely-legal tender of choice any time soon. .

But after repeatedly being served versions of broccoli with pasta in which the vegetable, though still vivid green, had been cooked to almost a smearing texture, I had to admit that the flavor was better than the way I had been preparing it, where the florets were barely fork-tender.

An alternative choice is to boil the broccoli or cauliflower until barely fork-tender, then ice bathe them and freeze as described above.