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Meal families

Sauces

Aioli sauce

Provencal sauce.
Emulsion of garlic and olive oil, sometimes with egg yolk and lemon juice.

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Warm starters

Langoustine raviole with flat leaf parsley

Ravioles : filled pasta smaller and less thick than raviolis.

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Beef

Tagliata

Tagliata : Italian cuisine. Thin slices of grilled beef served with a rocket salad and sauce vierge.

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Sea fish

Baked sea bream in salt crust with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Octopus galician style

Galician style : octopus cooked in boiling water and cut into slices of one centimeter thick covered with olive oil, salt and sprinkled with paprika or chili.
Served with boiled potatoes.

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Veal

Provencal veal paupiettes

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Main meals

Carbonade flamande

Beef, horse or pork stew with onions cooked with dark beer.

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Cold starters

Shrimps 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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Consommé and Soup

Lamb chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, lamb, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Desserts

Savarin with candied fruit

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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