What is the difference between saute and frying?

Answer 1

Saute: fry something lightly: to cook food quickly and lightly in a little butter, oil, or fat.

Frying: cook quickly in fat: to cook something in fat over high heat, or be cooked in this way.
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Answer 2

To saute is to lightly fry something in a shallow pan (usually but not necessarily), quickly and until the food is just cooked. For example, when you saute onions, you fry them in oil until the onions become soft but not crispy.

To fry is the same but usually with more oil and for a longer time. Refer to the above onion example, but this time, the results are crispy, fried onions.

It's not true that sauted food is less oily then fried foods. Sometimes it's the opposite. It all depends on the heat of the oil and the type of food being fried.

Answer 3

There's not a lot of difference. I would say that saute tends to be quicker than frying but both will involve either fat, oil or butter and therefore not particularly healthy.

Answer 4

saute is just putting in a hot frying pan and basically tossing the food for a short time, frying takes longer.

Answer 5

I think saute uses less oil

Answer 6

both technically the same, depends on the depth of the oil you are using, is it just coats the ingredients its saute, otherwise its frying.

Answer 7

Sautéing is the same as pan-frying - to cook quickly in a little fat. It comes from the French word "to jump," because the food in the pan is supposed to sizzle as it cooks and perhaps be stirred around. It's a common cooking method and is very easy to do.

Answer 8

Saute is in butter and frying is in oil.......

Answer 9

same except saute is less fatty / oily afterwards