15 Gourmet French Dishes To Cook At Home

Visiting France is a dream of many, but sometimes you can get to know it without leaving your home. Let's cook French cuisine!

Visiting France is a dream of many, but sometimes you can get to know it without leaving your home. Let's cook French cuisine!

1. Onion soup

 

Onion soup is a hallmark of France, only the Gallic nation managed to make such a wonderful dish out of such an unremarkable vegetable. To make onion soup, you need patience, concentration and onions, of course.

Step by step onion soup recipe with photo >>>

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2. Croissants

 

The French cannot imagine breakfast without a couple of fresh croissants and coffee. The recipes for this fragrant pastry vary a little, but the classic croissant always includes fresh butter, which cannot be replaced with margarine or other fats.

Step by step recipe for classic croissants >>>

Puff pastry croissants with Nutella >>>

3. Ratatouille

 

Once this vegetable casserole stood on the tables of peasants. In modern times, chefs have found it unique for culinary experiments. A few rules remain inviolable: vegetables are laid out in overlapping layers, poured over with sauce or sprinkled with grated cheese, then the ratatouille is baked. True, vegans got to the point about cheese and successfully found something to replace it with.

Ratatouille recipe with photo >>>

4. Salad "Nicoise"

 

There are many variants of Nicoise, but its main ingredient is tuna. For starters, of course, it is better to try out the classic recipe, it is light and satisfying.

Recipe for classic salad "Nicoise" >>>

5. Tarte tatin

 

An "inverted" apple pie, the peculiarity of which is that the filling is prepared first, and only then the dough is baked. According to legend, the hostess of the hotel named Taten spoiled the filling. Wanting to correct the situation and have time to serve the cake, she quickly made a new one, covered it with dough and sent it to the oven. The result was better than all expectations. The pie has become the hallmark of the hotel and a favorite dish of the guests. It is prepared simply and quickly, but dexterity will come in handy. By the way, now apples are replaced with peaches, pears and even vegetables.

See how to make tarte tatin with apples >>>

6. Julienne with mushrooms

 

For this dish you will need baking pots, if you do not have them, get them. Believe me, they are worth it and will come in handy more than once. Julien in a baking dish, not at all the one in ceramics. Properly cooked, it will delight you with a delicate taste, and mushrooms will seem better than any meat.

Step-by-step recipe for julienne in buns >>>

7. Omelet

 

You will say that, of course, you prepared it. But definitely not like the French! They make an omelette in a mug. It turns out fluffy and tender, like a soufflé.

See how to cook a super fluffy omelette "Pulyar" >>>

8. Fish with cream sauce

 

In France, the creamy sauce is called white or "Bechamel", it is believed that it can improve the taste of any fish. For example, they are watered with pikes, which are famous for their bonyness. The sauce recipe is simple and the dish does not require much time to prepare.

Bechamel Cream Sauce Recipe >>>

9. Kish

 

French open pie. The filling can be absolutely anything - meat, fish, mushroom, sweet. Suitable for use both hot and cold.

Open pie with ham and green beans >>>

10. Cordon Bleu

 

This recipe can hardly be called simple, and the dish is dietary. Cordon bleu is a veal schnitzel stuffed with cheese and ham, fried in breadcrumbs. The number of calories is difficult to count, as are the volumes of pleasure.

Step-by-step cordon bleu recipe with video >>>

11. Rooster in wine

 

Poultry meat in France is usually marinated in alcohol. Often used wine, which is famous for this country. A classic dish is rooster in wine. It will be a great decoration for any holiday table.

To cook rooster in wine you will need:

cock (1-1.5 kg) 1/2 bottle of red wine 5 slices of bacon 4 onions 300 g of mushrooms 3 cloves of garlic 2 carrots salt, pepper, thyme, bay leaf vegetable oil (olive)

Cut the rooster into 8 parts, put in a container with a lid and pour wine. Add bay leaf, a couple of sprigs of thyme, coarsely chopped onions and carrots. Place in the refrigerator to marinate overnight.

After 24 hours, remove the rooster pieces from the marinade, leave the marinade and vegetables. Dry the rooster with a paper towel and fry in a pan in oil on all sides until crusty. Put the rooster pieces in a tall saucepan, and in the same pan, fry the vegetables selected from the marinade with a slotted spoon and garlic for two minutes. Fold the vegetables to the rooster, salt and pepper the contents of the pan, pour wine. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a low boil and simmer, covered, for about two hours. 

Cut the bacon and mushrooms and fry until tender. Such frying must be added to the finished rooster and served!

12. Potato gratin

 

Another recipe that features wine, along with bacon and, of course, potatoes. Preparing gratin is very simple, and the taste, with ingredients that are quite familiar to us, is very refined.

Muffin Style Potato Gratin Recipe >>>

13. Lyon veal liver

Veal liver is a specific product that is very easy to spoil, for example, overdry, or cook too long, or pour store-bought sauce. After that, few dare to go beyond the first test. To prevent this from happening, use the Lyon veal liver recipe. Following it, it is difficult to spoil the dish.

So, cut the liver into large pieces, clean from the films. Salt, pepper and roll in flour. Shake off excess flour and send to a hot pan with melted butter. Fry for 2-3 minutes on each side. Put the finished liver on a plate and wrap with foil. In the pan where the liver was fried, fry the onion rings. You can add some wine and boil it down. Put the onion on a plate, on it - the liver. Enjoy!

14. Bouillabaisse soup

 

Looking for luxury seafood? Choose this recipe. Get the original soup, rich in easily digestible proteins. It is recommended to serve with garlic sauce.

See how to cook bouillabaisse >>>

15. Clafoutis

 

Whatever they say, but the French know a lot about desserts and clafoutis, proof of this. The recipe combines the best of both the pie and the casserole. The classic version involves cherries as a filling, but it is quite replaceable.

Cherry clafoutis recipe here >>>