Smooth black truffle ✦ ◆

Truffe noire lisse

What it is

Black-skinned and nearly smooth, its warts flattened almost away — and it smells of garlic, so plainly that the trade calls it the garlic truffle. It shares its host trees with the white truffle, poplar and willow, and fills the autumn gap before magnatum is up.

In the kitchen

Treat it as a white truffle, not a black one: shave it raw over hot food at the table. Heat destroys the allium note in under a minute, and what is left underneath is faint.

Goes with

Egg Butter Parmesan Olive oil Carnaroli rice Potato Cream

Same species

Bagnoli truffle Bianchetto truffle Musky truffle Burgundy truffle Chinese truffle Oregon white truffle

In season alongside

Bay bolete Woodcock Bronze bolete Burdock root Cabbage Chevrotin

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