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galipettes

giant mushrooms

Cooked stuffed mushrooms.

Giant button mushrooms (champignons de couche) are nicknamed galipettes or ‘somersaults’ because when they get too big they lose their footing and tumble.

Grown in the caves of Saumur, stuffed with shallots and parsley and butter (or snails or anything really) they are a speciality across Anjou.

Mushrooms

Pays de la Loire

Text © Dana Facaros

Image by Kimberly Vardeman