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Navarin is a French
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Navarin is a French ragoût
Ragout (French ''ragoût''; ) is a main dish stew.
Etymology
The term comes from the French ''ragoûter'', meaning: "to revive the taste".
Preparation
The basic method of preparation involves slow cooking over a low heat. The main ingredients ...
( stew) of lamb or mutton. If made with lamb and vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, ...
s available fresh in the spring, it is called ''navarin printanier'' (spring stew). While the name "navarin" has been suggested to honor the 1827 Battle of Navarino, more probably it refers to the stew's traditional inclusion of turnip
The turnip or white turnip ('' Brassica rapa'' subsp. ''rapa'') is a root vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates worldwide for its white, fleshy taproot. The word ''turnip'' is a compound of ''turn'' as in turned/rounded on a lathe and ...
s – ''navet'', in French.
History
The name of Navarino is linked to the Battle of Navarino of October 20, 1827, from the bay of the Greek port of Navarino in the Peloponnese, where the English, Russian and French coalesced fleets, under the command of French Admiral Henri de Rigny, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Turkish-Egyptian fleet of the Ottoman Empire during the Greek War of Independence. To celebrate this historic victory, the admiral would then have ordered to improve the ordinary meal the next day. The chef would then have invented a new recipe by replacing the rice of the ordinary rata with varied and colorful vegetables (inspired by Turkish mutton pilaw) to which the famous French chef Auguste Escoffier would later have given the name of this recipe. Historical battle just like other dishes named after historical military battles, such as coq au vin, chicken Marengo, or beef Wellington.See also
* List of stews *List of lamb dishes
This is a list of lamb and mutton dishes and foods. Lamb and mutton are terms for the meat of domestic sheep (species '' Ovis aries'') at different ages. A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb. The meat of a ...
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