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Meal families

Sea fish

Monkfish bourride

Bourride : fish stew stewed together with a brunoise of vegetables served with aioli or mayonnaise with olive accompanied by croutons rubbed with garlic oil.

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Sauces

Black truffle sauce

Fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.

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Main meals

Dauphiné raviole in broth with black truffle

Dauphiné raviole : filled pasta (cottage cheese and parsley).

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Cheeses

Coolea with Cumin Seed

Ireland. Cork.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Sea fish

John Dory in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Poultry

Lemon chicken

Piece of chicken marinated in lemon before cooking.

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Desserts

Christmas pudding

United Kingdom.
Dark-coloured Christmas cake, steamed for a long time with dried fruits, nuts, brown sugar or molasses and often beef kidney fat and flavoured with beer (Porter, Stout), alcohol (Cognac) or citrus juice. Before being served with cognac or flambéed rum.

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Poultry

Chicken with chasseur sauce

Chasseur sauce : made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef, adding white wine and butter with chopped shallots, sliced mushrooms, crushed tomatoes and garnish with chopped parsley.

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Main meals

Chicken couscous

Couscous : steamed semolina served with meat stew (lamb, chicken, merguez) accompanied by a spicy broth. Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Offal and tripe

Roasted veal kidneys with horseradish sauce

Horseradish sauce: velouté with grated horseradish.

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Sauces

Mole

Mexico.
Sauce made with peanut, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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Sea fish

Hake fillet with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Cooked meats

Small chitterling sausage with red wine

Sausage cooked with red wine and deglazed with cream.

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Offal and tripe

Veal sweetbreads with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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