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Meal families

Cheeses

Paški sir

Croatia. Pag.
Hard pasteurized sheep's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with mushrooms

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Poultry

Duck with black truffle sauce

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

Vegetable tajine

Stew of vegetables based on: eggplant, carrots, zucchini, olive oil, onions, peppers, tomatoes and spices (curry, paprika, ras el hanout).

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Poultry

Roasted duck breast with grenailles potatoes

Grenailles: small potatoes (diameter between 18 and 35 millimeters).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Steamed mussels

Mariniere sauce : Reduction of white wine, fish broth (or mussel juice) with shallots (or onions) and butter.

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Desserts

Pear diplomat

Sponge cake soaked with Grand Marnier (sometimes kirsch) with a layer of custard filled with pear and covered with whipped cream topped with a candied cherry.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken in demi-deuil with albufera sauce

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.
Albufera sauce : supreme sauce (cream of poultry and/or veal reduced and added with cream) supplemented with meat glaze and sometimes duck foie gras and Port wine.

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Beef

Grilled beef with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Beef

Grilled steak with marchand de vin butter

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached. Marchand de vin butter : reduction of red wine with shallots mixed with butter.

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Desserts

Strawberries and cream with Grand-Marnier

Chantilly cream : whipped cream with sugar.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bordeaux style crayfish

Crayfish flambéed with Cognac and a mirepoix with a tomato-based sauce and white wine.

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