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Lobster Thermidor

Lobster Thermidor: what it is and where to eat it

Lobster meat cooked in a rich sauce of egg yolks and brandy, then stuffed back into the shell and gratinated.

5 restaurants on Tastavo serve it

Cuisine
French

Typical ingredients

  • lobster
  • brandy
  • egg yolks
  • cream
  • cheese

History of the dish

France

Lobster Thermidor
© thefoodplace.co.uk · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Origin
France
Created by
Auguste Escoffier
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Lobster Thermidor is a French dish of lobster meat cooked in a rich wine sauce, stuffed into a lobster shell and browned. The sauce is often a mixture of egg yolks and brandy (such as Cognac), served with an oven-browned cheese crust, typically Gruyère.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Lobster Thermidor” · version used · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Where to eat it

Bruges

Kraków

Dubai

Vienna

Valletta

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