kotlety

• kotleti

From Russian котле́ты (kotléty), plural of котле́та (kotléta), from French côtelette (“cutlet; chop”), whence the English doublet cutlet.

kotlety pl (plural only)

1. Meat patties or meatballs made of ground pork and/or beef flattened into an oval shape, then seasoned and fried or baked.
   • 1961, Kyra Petrovskaya, Russian Cookbook, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., published 1992, →ISBN, page 97:

     Beware of the juiciness of kotlety, for many a frock has been ruined by those who cut into their kotlety too vigorously and allowed the hot butter to splatter all over them!

   • 1977, Savella Stechishin, “Breaded Veal Kotlety”, in Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, 9th edition, Winnipeg, Man.: Trident Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 88:

     The following recipe gives very tender kotlety that may be served when entertaining guests.

   • 1994, “Kotlety”, in Ben Collver, compiler, Russian Cooking, Grants Pass Sister City, page 29:

     Melt butter while shaping kotlety patties from the meat mixture.

   • 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 316:

     He mixed the meat from Emile with chopped onion, formed the kotlety, and covered them with a towel.

   • 2016, Larysa Plawan Levycky, chapter XIV, in Destiny, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

     I just happen to know an excellent cafeteria on Elmhurst Street that specializes in delicious kotlety. They serve them with mashed potatoes smothered in brown gravy.

   • 2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 207:

     She turned out to be a gregarious former math teacher from Ukraine, whose town had stopped paying salaries to schoolteachers years earlier, and she cooked a terrific batch of kotlety and mashed potatoes and borscht that would last until she came again three days later. Her kotlety were good, and her borscht was even better.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkotlɛtɪ]

kotlety

1. inflection of kotleta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural