Sardines Lemon Thyme Timut Pepper

La belle iIoise – Sardines with Lemon Thyme and Timut Pepper

The La Belle Iloise Sardines with Lemon Thyme and Timut Pepper is a refined recipe from Quiberon. This recipe features the Belle Iloise Superstar sardines, enhanced with extra virgin olive oil, and infused with the fresh notes of lemon thyme and Timut pepper, making them explode with flavor. We're talking about taste, of course. A rare pepper, originally from Nepal, with subtle citrus grapefruit notes – essentially simple ingredients that form a powerful and beautiful combination.

La Belle Iloise – Canned Fish from Quiberon

La Belle Iloise is a family business on the Breton Atlantic coast in northern France, whose name is famous far beyond France's borders for its special canned fish. Founded in 1932 by Georges Hilliet not far from the fishing port of Quiberon, for more than 85 years, freshly caught, high-quality fish have been traditionally cleaned, deboned, and finally canned by nimble hands. Here, the traditional craft of the conserverie, the production of canned fish, is passed down from generation to generation and thus preserved. After all, canning is a really good way to preserve fish, such as sardines, tuna, mackerel, and lobster, without preservatives or artificial additives, while maintaining high quality.

Today, the founder's granddaughter, Caroline Hilliet Le Branchou, leads La Belle Iloise, which employs between 400-800 staff depending on the season. The Conserverie La Belle-Iloise has remained a family business, which, as back then, values the quality of its products and working conditions. Caroline continues it with the same philosophy and love for good products, without forgoing innovations, thus developing new, creative products. The many recipes make La Belle Iloise unique, whether with high-quality cold-pressed olive oil, with lemon, green pepper, olive tapenade, Bayonne ham, or in Muscadet wine, all are a delicacy and, in their beautiful, nostalgic cans, also a visual delight.