Tomato concasse

Concasse, from the French 'concasser', to crush or grind, is a cooking term meaning to rough chop any ingredient, usually vegetables. This term is most specifically applied to tomatoes, with tomato concasse being a tomato that has been peeled, seeded (seeds and membranes removed), and chopped to specified dimensions. Specified dimensions can be rough chop, small dice, medium dice, or large dice.