DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Aligot
Also known as: Aligot auvergnat
A stretchy potato and fresh-cheese purée with crème fraîche.

About Aligot
Aligot is a potato and fresh-cheese dish associated with Aubrac, including Cantal, Aveyron and Lozère. Clermont Auvergne Tourisme presents this regional recipe with tome fraîche and crème fraîche.
The fresh cheese and cultured cream give the potatoes a rich dairy flavour. Garlic flavours the cooking water before removal, with salt and pepper completing the seasoning.
The purée is smooth and elastic, stretching into long strands when lifted. This named Aubrac version keeps the focus on potatoes, cream and fresh cheese.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Aligot
Clermont Auvergne Tourisme's Aubrac aligot.
- Tome fraîcheBaseIngredient page not linked
- PotatoesBase
- Crème fraîcheBase
- GarlicAromatic
- WaterCooking medium
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Tome fraîche: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.. Fresh regional cheese; no exact tome fraîche candidate verified. Not substituted with Tome des Bauges or aged Cantal.
- Potatoes: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.
- Crème fraîche: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.
- Garlic: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.. Explicit in method despite omission from short ingredient list; removed after potato cooking.
- Water: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.. Explicit potato and garlic cooking water.
- Salt: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.. Explicit salted cooking water and final seasoning.
- Pepper: Positive labels reflect the selected recipe ingredient; compound formulas remain unresolved where noted.. Pepper colour/form unspecified; no forced black pepper mapping.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- France
- FranceCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Aubrac / Auvergne Cuisine
- Auvergnat CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.