TRUFFLE

   Ingredient Insight from the BigOven Food Dictionary

1. A chocolate ganache candy usually with a soft chocolate inside. 

2. A flavorful fungus that grows underground near the roots of oak or beech trees and are harvested by pigs. White truffles are summer truffles and have a more mild taste than the black ones.

 

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