red-cook

red-cook (third-person singular simple present red-cooks, present participle red-cooking, simple past and past participle red-cooked)

1. (cooking, transitive) To braise (food) with a Chinese slow cooking technique that imparts a reddish-brown colour to the food.
   • 2011, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Fermented Black Soybeans (165 B. C. To 2011), page 117:

     We often stuff seasoned ground meat inside it like stuffed cucumber and then red-cook the whole thing.

• crooked