How to pronounce Brocciu

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /bʁɔtʃiu/. In plain English letters that is BRO-choo, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. The recording above is by Lyokoï, a native speaker, shared on Wikimedia Commons.

What is Brocciu?

Brocciu is a snack of France. Where it comes from: Corsica. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese. It tastes fresh.

Where Brocciu comes from

Brocciu is one of 73 signature dishes of France on this map. See all dishes from Corse.

• Figatellu · Main dish · Corsica

  Figatellu is a Corsican pork liver sausage, called figadellu in the north and figateddu in the south of the island, with the plural figatelli.

• Corsican fiadone fiadone · Dessert · Corsica

  Fiadone is a Corsican cheesecake without a pastry base.

• Bouillabaisse · Soup & stew · Marseille

  Bouillabaisse began as the meal of Marseille's fishermen, who cooked the bony rockfish they could not sell in a pot of sea water on the beach.

• Coq au vin · Main dish · Burgundy

  Coq au vin is a rooster or chicken braised slowly in red wine, traditionally from Burgundy, with lardons, small onions, mushrooms, garlic and herbs, and the sauce sometimes thickened with the bird's blood.

• Croissant · Bread & pastry · Paris

  The croissant's ancestor is the Austrian kipferl, a crescent-shaped bread.

• Ratatouille · Main dish · Nice

  Ratatouille is a Provençal stew of summer vegetables: aubergine, courgette, peppers, tomato and onion, cooked in olive oil with garlic and herbs.

Food of France

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