doh-FEEN] 1. Pommes dauphine (dauphine potatoes) are croquettes made by combining potato puree with choux pastry (cream-puff pastry dough) and forming the mixture into balls, which are then rolled in bread crumbs and deep-fried. 2. Sole dauphine is an elaborate preparation of deep-fried sole fillets garnished with mushrooms, crayfish, truffles and quenelles.

The name for little puffs made of potato puree, that are mixed with choux paste and deep fried.

breaded and deep-fried potato balls

The title of the wife of the dauphin.