How to pronounce Croque-monsieur

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kʁɔk məsjø/. In plain English letters that is krok muh-SYUH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Croque-monsieur?

Croque-monsieur is a snack of France. Where it comes from: Paris. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and as a snack. Its main ingredients are pork, dairy & cheese and wheat & flour. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Croque-monsieur comes from

Croque-monsieur is one of 73 signature dishes of France on this map. See all dishes from Paris.

• Croissant · Bread & pastry · Paris

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

• Baguette · Bread & pastry · Paris

  The baguette is the long, thin loaf that has become the everyday bread of France, and it is sometimes still called baguette de Paris.

• Jambon-beurre · Street food · Paris

  The jambon-beurre, "ham-butter", is the classic Paris sandwich, also simply called a parisien.

• Paris-Brest · Dessert · Paris

  The Paris-Brest is a ring-shaped cake made to honour the Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race, and its round form is meant to look like a bicycle wheel.

• 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.

Food of France

Dishes like Croque-monsieur in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Croque-monsieur:

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• Welsh rarebit caws pobi · Snack · Wales, United Kingdom

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• Olive ascolane olive all'ascolana · Snack · Ascoli Piceno (Marche), Italy

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• Halve Hahn · Snack · Cologne (Rhineland), Germany

  Halve Hahn means "half a chicken" in the Rhineland dialect, but there is no chicken in it.