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Specialty Cookware
Explore new cuisines and celebrate renowned dishes from all over the world with Le Creuset's specialty cookware. Featuring Moroccan Tagines, Paella Pans, Woks, and Balti Dishes, our specialty cookware brings new flavours into your everyday routine.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A tagine is a conical, earthenware cooking pot originating from Morocco and is designed for slowly-simmered recipes. A tagine is typically used to slow-cook beef, lamb, and other meat dishes, locking in flavours and moisture with its tight-fitting lid.
The Wok is a deep, rounded pan originating from China. The Wok's flat base and easy-sloping sides ensure ingredients can be stirred with the minimum of fuss. The Wok is ideal for stir-frying, but can be used for a variety of other cooking techniques, including searing and roasting.
A paella pan, as the name suggests, is a piece of cookware used to prepare the traditional Spanish dish Paella. The Paella pan offers ingredients a large and shallow enamelled cast iron surface, allowing excess moisture to evaporate.
The Pâté Terrine is both a cooking and a serving dish and has traditionally been used to compact meat mixtures. Today, the Pâté Terrine is often used as a baking dish for home-made bread and custards, and also doubles as a convenient serving dish, keeping food hot well after it is served.
Tracing its roots back to Northern Pakistan, the Balti Dish is a deep, round piece of cookware typically used to prepare dishes similar to Indian curry. The Balti Dish is ideal for marinated meats and integrating spices gradually into your recipes.
About Specialty Cookware
Le Creuset offers a wide range of specialty cookware, ensuring you can explore cuisines and cooking techniques from all over the world. Examples of specialty cookware offered are the Moroccan Tagine, the Paella Pan, the Balti Dish, the Wok, and the Pâté Terrine.
Our line of specialty cookware has been carefully crafted with premium materials, including enamelled cast iron, toughened nonstick, and durable, heat-retaining stoneware, guaranteeing their durability and top-quality performance for years to come. Le Creuset’s Specialty cookware invites you to embark on culinary journeys, explore uncharted recipes and ingredients you were otherwise not familiar with.
Mastering new cooking techniques and different cuisines can be challenging at first, but with the right blend of specialty cookware, learning new recipes is as simple as ever. Specialty cookware also makes for great statement dishes in the household, and are available in a range of distinctive designs. From the Asian-inspired Wok pan to the Moroccan Tagine, these pieces of cookware combine performance, practicality, and aesthetics, elevating everyday meal preparation.
Specialty cookware serves a number of uses around the kitchen, depending on the piece of cookware. The Moroccan Tagine, for example, is perfectly suited for slowly-simmered recipes, tenderizing lamb, beef, and tough cuts of meat. The Wok, by contrast, is the ideal piece of cookware for stir-frying ingredients, featuring a flat-base and easy sloping sides.
The Paella Pan and Pâté Terrine are other examples of specialty cookware and can be used to prepare rice dishes such as paellas and pâtés respectively. Le Creuset’s Balti Dish, by contrast, derives its inspiration from North Pakistani cuisine, and has been specifically designed to prepare marinated meats, vegetables, and to integrate spices into meals.
Deciding which recipes and cuisines you want to tackle will dictate which piece of specialty cookware you add to your collection. Try this delicious Lamb and Apricot Tagine or take a trip to the coasts of eastern Spain and experiment with your very own classic Paella.
Le Creuset offers a wide selection of premium specialty cookware, giving you the ability to travel the world from the comfort of your own kitchen. Adding specialty cookware to your kitchen arsenal is a great way to shake up traditional meal preparation, introducing a new breadth of flavours and ingredients.
- Moroccan Tagine: The perfect piece of cookware for tenderizing lamb, beef, and other tough cuts of meat, featuring a cone-shaped, stoneware lid that is designed to promote natural steam circulation with very little water.
- Wok: Featuring a flat base and easy-sloping sides, our Wok is ideal for stir-frying ingredients to perfection, all-while delivering superior heat retention and even heat distribution.
- Paella Pan: Capture the true essence of Spanish cuisine and prepare delicious Paellas – wherever you may be.
- Pâté Terrine: Perfectly suited to preparing delicious pâtés, baked goods, or even fresh loaves of bread, our enamelled cast iron Pâté Terrine embodies versatility and innovation at its finest.
- Balti Dish: Introduce a new layer of flavour into your favourite recipes with our Balti Dish. Perfect for preparing marinated meat and veggies, or when looking to integrate spices.
- Bread Oven: Take home baking to the next level with this iconic piece of cookware, featuring a domed lid that traps and circulates steam for maximum rise and ultimate flavour.
Maintaining your Specialty Cookware is simple, and will ensure their top-quality performance and sleek look for years to come. While all of our cookware is crafted with premium materials and built to last a lifetime, a little care always goes a long way.
From never plunging a hot pan directly in cold water to thoroughly drying it after cleaning, it is important to follow these practices to ensure the longevity and optimal performance of your cookware. Be sure to check out our Care and Use section, depending on the material of your piece of specialty cookware.