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