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Pommes chateau refers to potatoes which are cut in olive shapes or sometimes strips and stewed in butter. It is often used as a garnish for grilled chateaubriand steak.

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Pommes d'amour refers to the name used by Mauritians for their tomatoes: It literally means "love apples".

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Pommes Dauphine or crispy potato puffs refer to a French potato dish made with butter, egg yolk, choux pastry; plated with meat or game. They are croquettes made by combining potato purée with choux pastry which are formed into balls, rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. Choux pastry is a cream-puff pastry dough. Dauphine is pronounced "doh-feen".

Pommes duchesse is a French garnish of mashed potatoes with raw eggs that is baked in an oven.

Pommes frites refers to potato chips or french fries

Pommes Rot/Weiß also called Pommes Bahnschranke refer to potato fries or pommes frittes with ketchup and mayonnaise. Rot (red) represents the Catsup and Weiß or Weiss represents the Mayonnaise Pommes Ro/Weß literally means potato chips red/white or potato chips "level crossing barrier" (Bahnschranke) because of the way the barrier is painted red and white

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Pomodori is the Italian word for tomatoes. Pomodoro is the singular form

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Pompelmo is the Italian word for grapefruit.

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Ponchik is the Russian word for doughnut

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Pongal refers to an Indian food, particularly from Tamil Nadu which is a mash of rice and lentils boiled together and seasoned with ghee, cashew nuts, pepper and cummin seeds. Pongal is one of the foods which are eaten for breakfast with variety of other side dishes like Sambar and coconut chutney.

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