4a/25.- Lyon
specialities
Andouillette: a hearty pork-based
sausage (sort of sausage made from chitterlings), delicious grilled, pan-fried or au gratin, usually
served with a mustard sauce.
Beatilles: a surprising, delicious
mix of chicken crest, gizzard, liver and heart, served in stews
or with salad. One of the Catherine de Medicis favourite dishes.
Cervelle de canut: "silkworker's
brain" is cream cheese beaten with herbs, garlic and shallots
Cervelas lyonnais: boiled pork
sausage available in plain, truffled and pistachio versions
Quinelle: crumbled pike mixed into
a flour and butter dough (quennelles lyonnaises - sort of
dumpling made of flour and egg, flavoured- with meat or fish).
The sausage shaped quenelle is poached then out in the oven to
swell and brown. Usually served with a crayfish-butter bechamel
known as sauce Nantua.
Those meals was served with some gratin dauphinois (sliced
potatoes baked with cream), ratatouille (mix of vegetables
cooked with olive oil (tomatoes, courgette, peppers, eggplant,
onion)) and rice. => next
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