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petit pied bleu

[French]

"Small blue foot." Wood blewit. A bright lilac blue mushroom with fresh clean flavour and excellent with potatoes.

petit poireau antillais

[French] plural petits poireaux antillais

Elephant garlic or wild leek. A head of garlic having a large single clove and bearing more resemblance to a leek.

petit pois

[French]

Petit pois are small, tender young peas.

petit rouge

[French]

"Little red." A variety of wine grape used for making red wines. Used in the Valle d'Aosta in northern Italy.

petit salé

[French]

Salted and boiled belly of pork and spare ribs, usually used in stews. Delicately pink and white. They are sold in larger pieces than rillons.

petits choux à la suedoise

[French]

Small cabbage-shaped puffs made from choux pastry, stuffed with anchovy fillets minced (US: ground) with butter and the yolks of hard-boiled eggs, glazed with aspic, decorated with hard boiled eggs and truffles and topped with a slice of boiled lobster.

petit pois

/ptee PWAH/
[French] plural petits pois

Small, young peas. Tinned petit pois from France are, like tinned tomatoes, very useful in cooking.

petits pois en conserve

[French]

Tinned peas

Petit-Suisse

[French]

A soft, unsalted cream cheese which is used in desserts. It is log-shaped, wrapped in paper and has been made since 1850.

petit tacaud

[French] plural petits tacauds

Poor cod. A small bony fish resembling smelt and treated in the same way as whiting.