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Meal families

Sauces

Maltese sauce

Maltese Sauce : Hollandaise sauce flavored with blood orange juice and blanched orange zest.

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Main meals

Beef rendang

Indonesia.
Rendang : dish made with meat or vegetables slowly cooked in coconut milk with spices (lemongrass, turmeric, galangal, ginger, chili).

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Poultry

Salt-crusted poultry

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Main meals

Corn dog

Canada. United States.
Smoked sausage coated in batter and served on a stick.
Served with ketchup, mayonnaise or mustard.
Served hot.

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Poultry

Goose with chestnut

Roast goose with chestnut filling.

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Sea fish

Salmon steak with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Poultry

Stuffed goose neck with foie gras

Goose foie gras.
Served hot as a main course with pommes sarladaises or parsley potatoes, or served cold as a starter with a salad.

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Veal

Veal grenadine with chanterelle

Veal grenadine : Slice of meat cut from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.

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Desserts

Raspberry crumble

Crumble : a baked dish consisting of a layer of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc., topped with a crumbly mixture of butter, flour, and sugar, baked until the topping is crisp.

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Poultry

Roasted capon with forestière sauce

Forestière sauce : sauce based on butter, mushrooms, fresh cream, and shallots.

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Main meals

Ossobuco

Italy. Milan.
Specialty of braised veal shanks with vegetables, white wine and broth.
Usually garnished with gremolata and traditionally served with risotto alla milanese.

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Sea fish

John Dory with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Desserts

Frangipane

Cream made with almonds mixed with pastry cream, butter, eggs, sugar and flavored with rum.

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Desserts

Vanilla mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Sea fish

Hake steak Provençal

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Cheeses

Parmigiano Reggiano vecchio

Italy. Emilia Romagna and Lombardy south.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk.
Ripening : 18 to 24 months.

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Others

Shish kebab

Mediterranean cuisine.
Skewersed grilled or roasted meat.

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Desserts

Baklava

Balkans. Bulgaria. Greece. North Africa. Middle East. Turkey…
Dessert made of several layers of thin phyllo dough sheets separated with melted butter or oil, in which there is a mixture of dried fruits (hazelnuts, walnuts, or pistachios), sometimes finely ground and crushed spices (cloves), then immersed in a sweet liquid (water with lemon juice, orange blossom, honey, rose, etc).

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