Andouille from Guémené-sur-Scorff, an exceptional traditional product!
We often think we know the taste of Guémené andouille because it's found all over France...
But to eat the real andouille de Guémené, you have to buy it from a pork butcher in the Petite Cité de Caractère® of Guémené-sur-Scorff? If it has concentric circles when cut, that's fine, but it's not enough! It's probably just a pale copy.
Traditional know-how
Andouille de Guémené is undoubtedly the star of Breton charcuterie ! The producers, La Maison de l'Andouille and La Maison Levesque, won't deny it. The richness of their expertise is at the service of gourmet delights. This mouth-watering journey is a real taste of the best of Brittany.
To achieve this level of quality, you need real know-how, which these producers still possess, a respect for tradition and weeks of work!
There are several precise stages involved in making a tasty artisanal product:
- Salting and sorting the chops
- Assembly (careful threading and degreasing of the chops)
- Traditional beechwood smoking
- Drying for several weeks
- Cooking
Once all these steps have been carried out with total respect for ancestral know-how, you can finally taste the real andouille from Guémené-sur-Scorff, often imitated but never equalled.
Andouille in every sauce
Thin and long, recognisable by its black colour, the most famous of the Guémenoises sausages can be eaten in 1001 ways.
For purists, it is served at restaurant tables in its most traditional form: hot with mashed potatoes.
Daring gourmets will enjoy more modern recipes: burger, sandwich, salad... This grande dame of French gastronomy can also be enjoyed cold in thin slices as an aperitif with a local beer. In a crêperie, with a bowl of cider, it goes very well with a buckwheat galette.
Our advice
And now it's time to get cooking! Cooked with seafood (fish, scallops...), in cakes, cupcakes or savoury cookies... There are plenty of recipes you can make yourself!
Good to know
In Guémené-sur-Scorff, we never call anyone anandouille. We have too much respect for the food that is the pride of the inhabitants of this Petite Cité de Caractère®!
The andouille festival in Guémené-sur-Scorff
Such gastronomic renown deserves to be celebrated ! For over 30 years, this talent has been celebrated every year at the end of August in the historic centre of Guémené-sur-Scorff.
Thousands of visitors flock to the traditional "andouille-purée" meal. The shows and concerts, the parade of brotherhoods and the induction of new members, the fest dé, the fest noz and andouille on every table...
What a convivial atmosphere !
Guémené andouille really does have it all!
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