Aioli

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For the 19th-century Occitan newspaper, see L'Aiòli.
Aioli
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Aïoli
TypeSauce
Place of originEastern Spain and Southern France
Main ingredientsOlive oil, garlic

Aioli, allioli or aïoli (/aɪˈoʊli/ or /eɪˈoʊli/; Provençal Occitan: alhòli [aˈʎɔli] or aiòli [aˈjɔli]; Catalan: allioli [ˌaʎiˈɔli]; Spanish: alioli [ˌaliˈoli]) is a sauce made of garlic, salt, olive oil, and often egg, and found in the cuisines of the northwest Mediterranean, from Valencia to Calabria.

The names mean "garlic and oil" in Catalan and Provençal. It is found in the cuisines of the Mediterranean coasts of Spain (the Valencian Community, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Murcia and eastern Andalusia), France (Provence) and Italy (Sicily and Calabria), as well as Malta.

Some versions of the sauce are closer to a garlic mayonnaise, incorporating egg yolks and lemon juice, whereas other versions are without egg yolk and have more garlic. This gives the sauce a pastier texture, while making it more laborious to make as the emulsion is harder to stabilize.[1][2][3][4] There are many variations, such as adding lemon juice or other seasonings. In France it may include mustard.[5][6] It is served at room temperature.

Like mayonnaise, aioli is an emulsion or suspension of small globules of oil and oil-soluble compounds in water and water-soluble compounds. In Spain, purists believe aioli should not include egg, but in France and elsewhere, egg or egg yolk is the usual emulsifier.

Since about 1990, it has become common in the United States to call all flavored mayonnaises aioli.[7] Purists insist that flavored mayonnaise can contain garlic, but true aioli contains garlic and no other seasoning (except salt).[8]

Etymology[]

The word is a compound of the words meaning "garlic" and "oil".[citation needed]

The English spelling comes from the French aïoli, which itself comes from Occitan. The spelling in Occitan may be alhòli, following the classical norm, or aiòli, following the Mistralian norm.[9] In Catalan (which diverged from Old Occitan between the 11th and 14th centuries[citation needed]), it is spelled allioli (pronounced [ˌaʎiˈɔɫi]). The most common term in Spanish is alioli, an adaptation from Catalan, although it is also called ajoaceite, ajiaceite, ajolio or ajaceite.[10] It is also spelt alioli in Galician.[citation needed]

Basic recipe[]

The sauce is traditionally made with a mortar and pestle

Garlic is crushed in a mortar and pestle and emulsified with salt, and olive oil. Today, aioli is often made in a food processor or blender, but some traditionalists object that this does not give the same result.[4]

Serving[]

Aioli served with olives

In Malta, arjoli or ajjoli is commonly made with the addition of either crushed galletti or tomato.

In Occitan cuisine, aioli is typically served with seafood, fish soup, and croutons. An example is a dish called merluça amb alhòli.

In the Occitan Valleys of Italy it is served with potatoes[11] boiled with salt and bay laurel.

In Provençal cuisine, aioli or, more formally, le grand aïoli, aioli garni, or aïoli monstre is a dish consisting of various boiled vegetables (usually carrots, potatoes, artichokes, and green beans), poached fish (normally soaked salt cod), snails, canned tuna, other seafood, and boiled eggs, all served with aioli. This dish is often served during the festivities on the feast days of the patron saint of Provençal villages and towns. It is traditional to serve it with snails for Christmas Eve and with cod on Ash Wednesday.[4] Aïoli is so strongly associated with Provence that when the poet Frédéric Mistral started a regionalist Provençal-language newspaper in 1891, he called it L'Aiòli.[2][12]

The Provençal cuisine fish soup bourride is generally served with aioli.[13]

In Spain, particularly in Catalan cuisine, allioli is often served with arròs negre, arròs a banda, fideuà, with grilled snails (cargols a la llauna), lamb, rabbit, vegetables, boiled cod (bacallà a la catalana, bacallà amb patates) and comes in other varieties such as allioli de codony (allioli with boiled quince, not the preserve) or allioli with boiled pear.[5] Other commonly used vegetables are beets, fennel, celery, zucchini, cauliflower, chick peas, and raw tomato.[4][6]

See also[]

  • Agliata – Savory and pungent garlic sauce and condiment in Italian cuisine
  • Dipping sauce – Type of sauce
  • Garlic sauce – Sauce with garlic as a main ingredient
  • List of garlic dishes – Wikipedia list article
  • Mujdei – Spicy Romanian sauce made mostly from garlic and vegetable oil
  • Skordalia – Thick purée in Greek cuisine using crushed garlic with a bulky base and olive oil
  • Toum – Garlic sauce common in the Levant

References[]

  1. ^ J.-B. Reboul, La Cuisinière Provençale 1910 (1st edition); 1989 (25th edition), p. 88
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Robert Courtine, The Hundred Glories of French Cooking (tr. Derek Coldman), 1973, p. 140
  3. ^ Henri Philippon, Cuisine de Provence, 1977 (2nd ed), p. 20
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Mireille Johnston, The Cuisine of the Sun, 1976; Johnston gives one recipe without extra flavorings (p. 75) and one with mustard (p. 229)
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Prosper Montagné, Larousse Gastronomique (1938, tr. 1961), s.v.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Olney, Richard (1994). Lulu's Provençal table : the exuberant food and wine from Domaine Tempier Vineyard. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 124–5. ISBN 0-06-016922-2.
  7. ^ Google ngrams
  8. ^ David Tanis, A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, ISBN 1579653464, 2008, p. 102
  9. ^ cf. Occitan writing systems
  10. ^ Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2005). "ajiaceite", Diccionario panhispánico de dudas. Retrieved on 16 July 2019.
  11. ^ "La cucina occitana (area cuneese)" (in Italian). Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
  12. ^ Julian Wright, The Regionalist Movement in France 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought, ISBN 0199264880, p. 47-48 and passim
  13. ^ Waverly Root, The Food of France, 1958-1992, ISBN 0679738975, p. 359
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