Need suggestions for side dish to go with coq au vin

[lockedout]

So tomorrow is my boyfriend's 30th birthday and this weekend I'm going to go all out & make him Julia Child's coq au vin recipe for him since tomorrow we'll be having dinner with his mom & sister for the actual birthday. Problem is I don't know what to pair with the coq au vin for side dishes. Anyone have any suggestions for what to make with it?

Google says noodles.

[gaymer77]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I ended up going with riced cauliflower as a side. This is the end result (my boyfriend's first of two plates lol). I ended up using Stella red for the wine because I never had Stelle red before so it turned out with a hint of sweetness to the dish. It wasn't bad at all. In fact, like I said my boyfriend loved it and had two plates of it so obviously he enjoyed it. And before anyone comments on the plate I used, yes we tend to use Chinete plates instead of ceramic ones because we both hate doing dishes since we have no dishwasher.



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It's like that for most ethnic cuisines in the US, from what I've seen. Americans don't like authentically foreign food, you need to travel for it.

Living here in California, I can go eat authentic Mexican food only just about every street corner. I've been to Mexico, my in-laws are Mexican, and I can say with 100% certainty that most of the Mexican places around here are authentic.