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Meal families

Main meals

Paella

Rice dish with saffron cooked with olive oil, vegetables, meat and-or fish, shellfish cooked in a pan called paella.

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Beef

Beef 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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Poultry

Bresse chicken with morels and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled eggplant and goat cheese salad

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Offal and tripe

Lamb kidneys with mustard

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Desserts

Pear and chocolate crumble

Crumble : cake composed of a layer of fruit, vegetables, meat, etc, covered with a crumbly mixture of flour and butter and sugar baked until the topping is crisp.

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Cold starters

Lobster in aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Creamy potato

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Cooked meats

Hare a la royale pâté

A la royale : long cooked with red wine and Cognac and served boned.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed piquillo peppers with meat

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin

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Desserts

Fig pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Fried seafood

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with black truffle

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Cooked meats

Cold buffet

Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, the guests serve themselves.

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