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Shellfish and Seafood
Lobster claws in americaine sauce
American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."
Cheeses
Cantal jeune
France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Cantal.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.
Ripening : 4 months maximum.
Appetizers
Accras cod
Lightly spiced cod fritter.
Serve hot as an appetizer or as a starter.
Poultry
Spatchcocked chicken with herbes de Provence
Spatchcock : bird prepared for grilling or roasting by removing the backbone and sternum and flattening it out before cooking.
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Fish tartare with lemon and herbs bites
Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.
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Pieds paquets
France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron. Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille.
Dish made with sheep’s feet and stuffed tripe, filled with pork belly or salted pork, slowly simmered in a white wine and tomato sauce.
Others
Oriental style pita
Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with minced meat (lamb, beef, chicken, etc.), hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).
Cheeses
Selles-sur-Cher
France. Centre-Val de Loire. Loir-et-Cher. Selles-sur-Cher.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and bloomy rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 10 to 30 days.
Poultry
Chicken with tomato sauce
Tomato sauce : tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, onion, bay leaf, thyme, red, salt, sugar and pepper.
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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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Lobster with cream sauce
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.
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Dacquoise
France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Landes. Dax.
Dessert cake composed of several discs of meringue pastry with almonds and hazelnuts (sometimes with added coconut or pistachios) with butter cream and covered with icing sugar.
Serve cold.
Sheep and Goats
Champvallon style Lamb chop
Champvallon : baked between two layers of potatoes with poultry broth.
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Cockles and persillade sauce
Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.
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Souvarov-style pigeon wings
Souvarov : stuffing with fresh foie gras and black truffle cooked in terrine.
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