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Article #121: The 10 most popular french recipes

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Despite new trends, hype and marketing, Pot au feu
tradition has never been stronger. In A typical family meal coming once again
France, good food still means authentic from Normandy. Pot au feu is a boiled
cooking by using natural products from beef with pork, chicken and vegetables.
diverse regions. This is how we celebrate It takes about 4 hours an a half to cook
human being by offering the best food to as the beef has to simmer slowly to
all our senses. Cooking home-made food extract all its flavor. Pot au feu is
and eating at the table make your also called Potee Normande in France.
appetite grow stronger. The challenge is Sauerkraut
to combine ingredients together to get Quite similar to the german sauerkraut,
the best taste out of them. However the french sauerkraut called choucroute
anyone from anywhere can explore the comes from Alsace. However the french
world of french cooking. To start with, recipe can be traced back to 6 centuries
let's find out what french people enjoy ago ! Sauerkraut is a fermented cabbage.
to eat. Commonly sauerkraut includes sausages,
Here are the top 10 most popular recipes pork knuckle and bacon. Two essential
in France: ingredients are alsatian white wine and
Roast Chicken juniper berries.
Indeed roast chicken is not a notorious Veal stew
french recipe but cooked everywhere Called blanquette de veau in France, this
around the world from Asia and Africa to is another stew recipe from Normandy. The
America. However it is the most popular veal meat simmers in white sauce - as
french dish. Roast chicken is not stuffed blanquette from blanc stands for white in
inside. The secret is to baste the french - with mushrooms and onions. The
poultry several times during roasting white sauce is made of egg yolks,
with butter and cooking oil and to add an whipping cream and lemon juice. Veal stew
onion in the roasting pan. Roast chicken is usually served with rice.
is traditionally served with potatoes and Lamb navarin
green beans. Another stew but this one is made of lamb
Boeuf bourguignon meat. It is also called spring lamb as it
The most famous beef stew in France. comes with green vegetables available in
Boeuf bourguignon is a traditional recipe spring. Navarin comes from navet which
from Burgundy. A recipe that french stands for turnips in french. Other
people use to cook at least once every ingredients are tomatoes, lamb stock and
winter. The beef meat is cooked in a red carrots. This stew takes less time to
wine sauce, obviously a red wine from simmer than any other.
Burgundy. Bacon, onions, mushrooms and Cassoulet
carrots add flavor to the recipe. But A strange recipe that english people
thyme, garlic and beef stock are often confuse with their traditional
essential to cook a good boeuf breakfast! A traditional meal from south
bourguignon. west of France. Each village has its own
Mussels mariniere recipe but it always includes beans and
A typical summer recipe very popular meats. Cassoulet is a rich combination of
along the Atlantic and Mediterranean white beans and depending on the village
coast. Mussels are fresh and cooked in a lamb, pork, mutton or sausage meat.
white wine sauce with parsley, thyme, bay Cassoulet is the cornerstone of the
leaf and onion. It takes only 5 minutes french paradox study describing why
to cook a tasteful mussels mariniere. The people from south west of France suffer
secret is to season carefully the meal less than others from infarcts.
and to discard any mussels that don't Bouillabaisse
look good enough. Bouillabaisse is closely linked with the
Sole meuniere city of Marseille on the Mediterranean
Although sole is an expensive fish, the coast. The recipe is a fish soup from
taste is so elegant that it is considered local fish and seafood products including
as the noblest fish. Sole meuniere is a crabs, scorpion fish, monk fish and
recipe from Normandy. The fish is cooked others. Provencal herbs and olive oil are
in a butter sauce with a little bit of essential. For a long time, the recipe
flour and lemon juice. Sole is was a secret jealously kept by the people
traditionally served with rice or green from Marseille.
vegetables.






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