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Meal families

Main courses

Baked Mont d’or

Baked Vacherin Mont-d'Or cheese.

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Freshwater fish

Roasted pike-perch with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Roasted spiny lobster with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Seafish

Balik salmon

Balik : smoked salmon from a fillet cut from the back of the salmon.

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Seafish

Roasted cod fillets with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Poultry

Roasted poultry with mushrooms

Mushroom sauce : sauce made from a white or brown base, with mushrooms and other ingredients such as butter, seasonings, stock (veal or poultry), and wine.

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Cheeses

Murol

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk and a reddish-orange colored washed rind with a hole in the middle.

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Cheeses

Cantal affiné

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Cantal.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop tartare with herbs

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Kirsch baba

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pretzel

Knot-shaped bread or brioche covered with coarse salt.

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Seafish

Sea bass tartare

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

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Beef

Steak tartare

Minced meat served raw with capers, chives, gherkins, onions, chopped parsley, and a raw egg yolk.

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Freshwater fish

Eel with lemon butter

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Seafish

Blanquette of turbot

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Offal and tripe

Veal kidney with Madeira sauce

Madeira sauce : demi-glace (reduced brown stock) with Madeira.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with goat cheese

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

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