DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Cervelle de Canut
Also known as: Canut's Brain, Herbed Fromage Blanc Lyonnais
Drained fresh cheese with cream, herbs, shallot, wine and vinegar.
About Cervelle de Canut
L’Auberge des Canuts publishes this cervelle de canut as a speciality prepared in its Lyonnais bouchon. The fresh-cheese mixture, also called claqueret in the account, combines drained faisselle with cream and an assortment of chopped herbs.
Shallot, optional garlic, wine vinegar and dry white wine bring the seasoning, with olive oil adding richness. Chives, parsley, chervil and tarragon provide the herbal character.
The mixture retains small pieces of faisselle within its creamy texture. The restaurant serves it with bread at the end of a mâchon, and recommends presenting it fresh and cool, rather than cold.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten).
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Cervelle de Canut
L’Auberge des Canuts’ Lyonnaise cervelle de canut.
- Drained faisselleBase
- ShallotAromatic
- GarlicAromatic · Optional
- Thick crème fraîcheBase
- Olive oilSeasoning
- Wine vinegarSeasoning
- Dry white wineSeasoning
- ChivesAromatic
- Flat-leaf parsleyAromatic
- ChervilAromatic
- TarragonAromatic
- SaltSeasoning
- PepperSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- BreadAccompaniment
- Saint-Véran wineAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Drained faisselle: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual29 fresh dairy cheese confirms Milk, full product formula unprovided.
- Shallot: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual30 shallot option selected over spring onion.
- Garlic (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit optional31 governs method48 not repeating optionality.
- Thick crème fraîche: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual32 dairy cream confirms Milk.
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual33 in dressing46, optional extra drizzle54 consolidated with required base allocation.
- Wine vinegar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual34 wine vinegar, precise grape/colour/product unknown, no inferred Sulphites.
- Dry white wine: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual35 dry white wine, full product formula unknown.
- Chives: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Flat-leaf parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual37 named flat-leaf form, broader parsley mapping.
- Chervil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tarragon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual41 mill-ground pepper, precise type/species unprovided.
- Bread: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Actual59 bouchon service, ordinary bread confirms Wheat; full bread formula unknown.
- Saint-Véran wine (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual57 optional named wine pairing selected over Mâcon-Villages/Fleurie; exact bottle/formula unknown, no guessed allergens.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- France
- FranceCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Lyonnaise Cuisine
- Lyonnaise CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.