There are cooking signals that seem unimportant… until the day you explore their secret. This is exactly what occured to me with a strange rountine of my grandmother: every time she got ready a soup or broth, she delicately pushed one or two cloves into a whole onion. At the time, I found it strange. But once I ate the dish, I knew: this small sign alters everything. And since then, I haven’t been without it.
A French culinary tradition
The French have a knack for promoting even the simplest things. And the aromatic-studded onion is a delicious example of this. In traditional cooking, we rely on simple but effective techniques to enrich dishes especially in autumn and winter when fresh herbs are scarcer. This little treasure is called clouté, a well-chosen way for an onion scented with these powerful dried flowers.
