This site uses only a few technical cookies necessary for its operation. By continuing to browse, you accept their use.
To find out more...
To find out more...
Bouquet garni
Used very frequently in French cuisine, a secret of French chefs, it adds flavour to a lot of recipes, and it's easy to prepare.
The basic principle is to make a small bundle of herbs, bind them in green leek leaves and to tie it up, so that the whole thing can be removed and discarded easily after cooking.
The basic principle is to make a small bundle of herbs, bind them in green leek leaves and to tie it up, so that the whole thing can be removed and discarded easily after cooking.
438 K 3.6/5 (46 reviews)
15 min.
Easy
0.90 €
1 Bouquet garni
5 IngredientsLast modified on: March 21th 2017
1 
1 sprig 
1 green part of leek
1 sprig 
1 sprig celeryTimes for this recipe
Preparation: 15 min.
Step by step recipe
Stage 2 - ⌛ 3 min.
Wash and dry the green part of a leek, cut in pieces of about 3 inches (or 7 centimetre).
Stage 3 - ⌛ 1 min.
Wash, dry and cut in pieces of the same size 1 sprig celery.
Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.
Put a green leek leaf in front of you, put a bunch of thyme, a bunch of parsley, a laurel leaf, and a piece of celery.
Curve the green leek leaf to fold.
Curve the green leek leaf to fold.
Stage 5 - ⌛ 1 min.
Cover with the second leek leaf.
Stage 6 - ⌛ 2 min.
And tie up the whole bundle, finishing with a knot.
Stage 7 - ⌛ 1 min.
Cut off surplus string and trim each end.
Bouquet is ready to use.
Bouquet is ready to use.
Stage 8
If you are doing bouquets, you can easily make make a few of them (the bouquet factory!) instead just one...
Stage 9
...because they can be frozen in a plastic bag.
Remarks
From this basic recipe you can add other herbs like rosemary for example.
Keeping: A few hours or several months in the freezer.
Source: Home made.
How much will it cost?
- For 1 Bouquet garni : 0.90 €
Change currency:
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
Some other recipes using this recipeSee them all 24
Tomato sauce (for pizzas)
This is the sauce to put on pizza bases before the toppings.
544 K4.3 1 hour 15 min.
Cream of cauliflower soup with smoked haddock
This soup with a difference plays up an amazing flavour combination: creamy cauliflower with morsels of smoked haddock.
55 K 25 min.
Pissaladière with puff pastry
This savoury tart is a traditional speciality around Nice, on France's Cote d'Azur. Originally, pissaladière had much in common with its Italian cousin, the pizza, but made with onions, anchovies and olives, and without tomatoes. This is a slightly different version, more friable (with a...
68 K3.9 1 hour 40 min.
Blanquette of veal
Blanquette is a classic dish of French family cooking, but can also be found in bistros. Veal is cooked slowly, and the sauce is thickened with a mixture of egg yolks and cream. I have set out a rather special way of making it.
437 K4.4 2 hours 50 min.
Roast in the bag pork with fondant vegetables.
Roasting "in the bag" is a simple but long method. The meat is sealed in a bag and cooked slowly at moderate temperature, keeping it very tender and with an amazing flavour. Meat cooked like this produces delicious juicies without adding anything else. These can be used to cook vegetables to a...
140 K4 5 hours 45 min.
This recipe uses (among others)
Celery
Like these other recipes: Small ratatouille with , ... See them all 1
Parsley
Like these other recipes: Sautéed oyster mushrooms, Tzatziki, How to prepare cockles, Cauliflower tabbouleh, Caesar salad, ... See them all 164
Thyme
Like these other recipes: Whiting fillet en papillote with carrots, lemon and leeks, Onion fondue, Tomato meat balls, Preserved tomatoes, Ratatouille confite, ... See them all 70
Other recipes you may also like
Triple-Cheese Pumpkin Gratin
The small squash used here is the Japanese chestnut pumpkin or "potimarron". For this gratin, we scrape out the seeds and fill the centre with a mixture of three sorts of cheese and cream, then bake it in the oven until the pumpkin flesh is soft. Served straight from the oven like this, it is good to dive into the gratin with a spoon. January 24th 2016100 K4.1 55 min.
Marinated tuna with herbs
Here is a very simple recipe, preferably for a barbecue or plancha, but could be made in the kitchen. As for any summer-barbecue-backyard recipe, all proportons can be varied according to taste. February 21th 2011286 K4.3 1 hour 25 min.
How to make chocolate chips
These chocolate chips, very fine, are perfect for decorating a dessert, but they can also be incorporated in a preparation like mint ice-cream for example. February 21th 2011298 K3.8 5 min.
Oxtail Parmentier
Rather like the classic hachis Parmentier, but using oxtail stewed very slowly in red wine and herbs. October 13th 2010327 K4.7 5 hours 50 min.
Poached eggs
Poached eggs are cooked, without the shell, in barely simmering (nearly boiling) water. White should be firm and yolk soft, that's the difficulty. This recipe teaches you how to succeed with three important points. January 8th 2013331 K5 2 hours 40 min.
News list of cooking-ez.com
Sign up to receive the latest recipes (next batch due to be sent on 2026-02-15)
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Post a comment or question
Follow this recipe
If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.
Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.
Alternatively: you can subscribe to the mailing list of cooling-ez.com , you will receive a e-mail for each new recipe published on the site.