Stufato and Stufatino

Stufato and Stufatino its diminutive, are Italian terms for a stew or braise of meat cooked with wine in a tightly closed recipient. This passed into the French language and produced a family of French terms such as estouffade and étouffe, all with much the same meaning. étuvée is a term with a different derivation but it too has this meaning. The cooking method indicated by all the terms means, in effect, that the meat (or fish, or fowl, or vegetable) is cooked by steam.