Provençal recipe

Grilled tuna with remoulade

Recipe no. 119 Reboul, 1909 Fish

Recipe no. 119 from Jean-Baptiste Reboul's La Cuisinière provençale (1909), page 64.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Preparation and cookingCut a tuna steak of medium thickness, about 4 to 5 centimetres; put it in a gratin dish with oil, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and put it in a hot oven; baste from time to time.
  2. PlatingWhen it is cooked and nicely golden, arrange it on a dish and send it with a sauceboat of remoulade sauce.

Reboul's text

Cut a tuna steak of medium thickness, about 4 to 5 centimetres; put it in a gratin dish with oil, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and put it in a hot oven; baste from time to time.

When it is cooked and nicely golden, arrange it on a dish and send it with a sauceboat of remoulade sauce.

Small Provençal glossary for this recipe

Reboul writes in French: no Provençal word appears in this recipe, apart from the dish's name itself. The table below gives the Provençal equivalents of the words used, in mistralian spelling, translated by Lingua Nostra. Each form is attested in our Provençal-English dictionary; click to open the entry.

ProvençalEnglish
roudellosteak
platgratin dish
òlioil
fouroven
ré-moladeremoulade

Source: Jean-Baptiste Reboul, La Cuisinière provençale, Marseille, 1909, recipe no. 119, page 64. Public domain. Transcription, formatting and Provençal glossary by Lingua Nostra.