French Fish Dishes and Recipes

There are many French Fish Dishes and recipes worth mentionning. In this section there will only be a few of them, but they will for sure whet your appetite and make you want to discover more.

For example, there are some very good seafood dishes and recipes in Poitou Charentes. The Poitou Charentes French region boasts an abundance of water and thus its gastronomy offers excellent fish and seafood to delight your taste buds: oysters, mussels, clams, scallops and soft-shelled crabs, sole, turbot, eel, cuttlefish and carp, stuffed or cooked in wine sauces.

Around the coastal town of La Rochelle, the famous mouclade is a must-taste and a fine example of what the Poitou Charentes gastronomy and food have on offer.

Mouclade

The Mouclade will make you love mussels even if you are not really fond of them. Its sauce seems basic and easy to prepare but this traditional recipe is exactly the type of surprising dish you could underestimate and that finally result in fine tastes melting into your mouth.

The Mouclade is a regional Poitou Charentes dish made with locally grown mussels. To make the Mouclade, mussels are cooked in white wine and then covered with a creamy sauce. Once the dish is ready mussels are served on the half-shell, topped with this outstanding though simple sauce.