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Meal families

Cold starters

Red mullet paté

Served cold.

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Desserts

Apricot marquise

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Desserts

Pear charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Main meals

Paella

Long saffron rice with olive oil accompanied by vegetables, meat and/or fish and shellfish cooked in a utensil called Paella.

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Sauces

Porcini mushroom cream sauce

Porcini mushroom sauce : porcini mushrooms and shallots with veal stock, cream and white wine.

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Offal and tripe

Sautéed veal sweetbreads with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Poultry

Guinea fowl salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Sauces

Supreme sauce

Supreme sauce : velouté of poultry and/or veal that is reduced and enriched with cream.

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Desserts

Gâteau basque with rhum-flavoured pastry cream

Basque Country.
Cake filled with almond or rum and vanilla pastry cream.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken with morel sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Main meals

Fish and chips

Breaded fish with fries.

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Desserts

Merveilles

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Italy. Aosta Valley. Switzerland. Romandy.
Variety of fritter with thin and crispy batter often flavored with orange blossom water and Armagnac and covered with sugar or honey.

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Sea fish

John Dory with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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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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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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