List of recipes using Butter: 171 recipes (gluten free)

Artichoke hearts forestier

This recipe is not very complicated, but does involve some work: an artichoke heart with a layer of mushroom duxelle, a layer of fried bacon, topped with a poached egg and cream sauce. Everything can be prepared in advance (the day before for example), but the final assembly should be done just...
May 10^th 2023262K5 1 hour 47 min.

Artichoke Soup

For this recipe, we will first steam the artichokes, recover all the flesh, and prepare with shallot and milk a delicious soup.
December 4^th 202215K 46 min.

Asparagus "en petit pois"

As the name suggests, this historic recipe (see below for more details) treats asparagus like peas, Napoleonic French style: first cooked the usual way, then cut small (to look like peas), cooked again in stock, and finished with a cream and egg yolk sauce.
May 2^nd 202132K 42 min.

Cocotte eggs with Comté

A light delicious and quickly prepared dish, an easy and elegant answer to the frequent question "what are we going to eat this evening?". Here is version with Comté (a famous cheese from eastern France, like gruyère, but much better), but it can be made prepared many different ways.
February 21^th 2011346K4.3 1 hour

Crème de foie gras

This is a rather tricky recipe in which foie gras is used to make a savoury cream, similar to a crème brulée but - of course - without sugar and without caramelizing the top. Instead, it is topped with an espuma (a light hot foam) of potatoes, garnished with crispy morsels of serrano ham.
December 17^th 2023139K3.8 1 hour 33 min.

Du Barry soup

Du Barry is a creamy cauliflower soup, including small whole pieces of cauliflower.
October 17^th 2018259K4.5 1 hour 1 min.

Eggs "en cocotte" with spinach

A buttered ramekin, a layer of mushroom duxelles, a layer of spinach, a bit of cream, and an egg, in two layers, on top.
May 10^th 2023133K5 1 hour 14 min.

Eggs en Cocotte à la Française

Eggs cooked in small ramekins with a tasty mix of peas, bacon, onion and cream - even more French than the classic version!
April 27^th 2020115K4.5 31 min.

Endive and beer soup

For this soup, the endives (chicory) and onions are cooked gently together first before adding the vegetable stock and beer. The endives and beer give the soup a hint of bitterness and a unique flavour.
January 12^th 201480K4.4 1 hour 5 min.

Hearty leek and sprout soup

The method for this rustic winter soup is anything but typical: the sprouts are first roasted in the oven, before being mixed with the leeks (pre-cooked with onions) and simmered in chicken stock. Served with morsels of crispy ham, the full-on flavour is sure to hit the mark.
January 17^th 202128K2 1 hour 29 min.

Leek and potato soup

A classic of French family cooking.
October 3^rd 2010479K5 42 min.

Mushroom velouté

This smooth, creamy soup with its lovely mushroom flavour is quick and easy to make.
May 10^th 2023144K4 55 min.

Purée of Jerusalem artichokes with foie gras

This recipe features a rather unexpected combination that works really well: the distinctive flavour of Jerusalem artichoke with the richness of foie gras. The Jerusalem artichokes are puréed with potatoes. This is serves hot mixed with very cold diced foie gras. The combination of flavours and...
January 11^th 202362K4.1 20 min.

Ramekins of duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes are a mix of mashed potato and egg yolks, cooked in the oven, in a decorative shape and delicious. In this recipe they top a ramekin containing a layer of mashed potato, cooked leek, and thinly sliced bacon.
March 4^th 2020291K 24.6 2 hours 5 min.

Salad greens and small omelette

A very green, rather crunchy salad with chiffonade, zucchini and raw artichokes, into which we add the delicious fluffiness of a quick little omelette.
September 10^th 202310K 47 min.

Smooth mixed vegetable soup

Any vegetables you have, cut into small pieces, mixed with a shallot cooked in butter, cooked together then blended. Even better when it's cold outside.
January 3^rd 2014339K4.4 2 hours 3 min.

Sorrel soup

Smooth with a slight sharpness, this soup has a very particular taste.
May 8^th 2011391K3.8 1 hour 4 min.

Super-green, super-thrifty soup

It's all too easy to just throw away the leaves or other green parts of our usual fresh vegetables. This is a real shame, because most of them can be cooked, as in this very green soup that uses up radish tops, spring onion greens and pea pods. I'm sure you'll get how it's "green" in every sense:...
June 24^th 202031K 53 min.

Surprise eggs

These look like perfectly normal boiled eggs, but when the shell is cracked open - surprise! They contain a mixture of scrambled egg, cured ham, fried prawns and chives.
September 26^th 2010176K5 51 min.

The total turnip

The whole turnip goes into this recipe, in which ramekins are filled with both the root vegetable and its leaves.
February 21^th 2011306K4.4 57 min.

Turnip and Jerusalem artichoke soup

This soup combines the earthy flavours of Jerusalem artichokes and turnips. This is the chance to use not only the roots, but the turnip tops as well, if possible.
January 11^th 202324K

Turnip top soup

It may no longer be widely known these days, but the leafy tops of certain root vegetables are edible, so it's a shame to waste them. Better still, the leaves can be made into interesting accompaniments for their root vegetable, or soups with amazing flavours. In this recipe, I will show you how to...
April 10^th 201952K 42 min.

Warm salad of potatoes and purple artichokes

This salad combines red onion, purple artichokes cut small and slices of warm potato, dressed with a good vinaigrette.
October 14^th 201297K3.8 54 min.

Warm white bean salad with smoked trout

"Land and sea" flavors for this salad featuring white beans and smoked trout.
June 11^th 202312K 1 hour 29 min.

Baked sea bass fillet with lemon and tarragon

This really simple recipe allows the natural nobility of sea bass to shine through: fillets baked until just done, complemented with lemon and tarragon.
June 30^th 202148K 34 min.

Breton style shellfish and vegetable soup

For this recipe with marine flavors, we will cook several kinds of shellfish, then add them to small creamed vegetables.
January 8^th 202315K 1 hour 43 min.

Cockles and cabbage with smoky cream sauce

I think you'll like this straightforward recipe which brings together cockles and cabbage with a smoky cream sauce.
December 15^th 202121K 1 hour 6 min.

Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages

This pollack fillet is cooked in two stages: first pan-fried briefly to seal it and colour the outside, then baked gently in the oven in a parcel (en papillotte) on a bed of melting onions, julienne carrots and peas. This double cooking will give you a fish that's lightly crisped on the outside and...
January 23^th 2011174K4.7 1 hour 40 min.

Fillets of sole Dieppoise

In principal, fillets of sole Dieppoise are poached and served with a creamy sauce and small shellfish. I am offering a new twist on the dish, with the fish sautéed rather than poached, a cream sauce flavoured with mussel stock, and served with shellfish (mussels, cockles and clams), mushrooms and...
December 30^th 201966K3.9 1 hour 27 min.

Fish fillet in express cooking envelope

Vegetables cut in small dice and precooked, fish fillet, lemon juice, olive oil, and 2 minutes in the microwave.
June 11^th 2011339K 23.8 1 hour 19 min.

Fish in white wine

This recipe for cooking fish in the oven is both simple and delicious. The fish is cooked with herbs and onions in white wine. It is served in a light sauce, made with the cooking juices and a little lemon juice.
December 14^th 2016115K4.3 56 min.

Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc

This recipe consists of delicate flakes ("petals") of poached fish, cooked with smoked ham, served on a bed of julienne vegetables (fine sticks of carrots, turnips and cabbage), with a "beurre blanc" sauce made with vinegar and shallots. Not difficult, but entails some work.
December 31^th 2013250K4.3 1 hour 34 min.

Grilled fillet of salmon with corn-salad cream

A salmon fillet, grilled slowly to keep the inside tender, served with sesame rice and a little corn salad cream. You'll love it...
October 13^th 2010264K 13.9 1 hour 14 min.

Langoustine gratin

This elegant gratin has a layer of brunoise vegetables in the bottom, with langoustine tails (scampi) cooked in two stages on top, finished with a thick creamy sauce, made with the "fumet" from the langoustines. This recipe is quite long to make, but can be prepared in stages over a number of days....
December 30^th 201964K3.9 2 hours 15 min.

Mackerel rillettes

This recipe for mackerel rillettes (or potted mackerel) starts with poaching the fish. The flesh is then taken off the bones and forked into a seasoned mixture of butter, mustard, cream and lemon juice. In France this is traditionally eaten as an aperitif snack, served on small slices of toast.
June 19^th 201948K 1 hour

Mussels marinière

This is the most classic way of preparing mussels, simple and delicious.
September 4^th 2011208K5 1 hour 4 min.

Nicholas's fish

This is a very easy recipe, everything hinges on the brief cooking of the leeks, then the fish.
February 21^th 2011243K4.8 56 min.

Pan-fried salmon with white cabbage

In this recipe a salmon steak is accompanied with blanched white cabbage and a rich sherry vinegar sauce.
January 3^rd 2014115K4.5 1 hour 2 min.

Parcels of fish fillet in spinach

These parcels are made with small pieces of fish fillet, wrapped in a blanched spinach leaf and lightly fried in butter. They can be served with a salted white wine sabayon (as in the recipe of scallops with crunchy vegetables), a beurre blanc, a dash of olive oil with herbs, or any other sauce of...
March 18^th 2013233K5 2 hours 23 min.

Rolls of fish in smoked ham

Pieces of white fish rolled in thinly sliced smoked ham. These rolls are cooked in a little olive oil and served with French beans. The pairing of smoked ham with fish might seem a little strange, but in fact these flavours marry well.
February 21^th 2011305K4.9 54 min.

Rosemary steamed fish

In this recipe the fish is cooked in steam perfumed with rosemary, which makes it tender and aromatic, served on a bed of onions fondue and finished with a dry white wine sauce.
March 29^th 2020330K3.8 1 hour

Salmon "en papillote" with small vegetables

A fresh salmon escalope just salt and pepper with small dices of small vegetables.
June 22^th 2011240K 15 1 hour 28 min.

Salmon chard rolls

For this dish only the green part of the chard is used. The blanched leaves are rolled around grilled salmon portions. The rolls are served coated with a savoury lemon sabayon, or the sauce of your choice.
August 8^th 2010165K3.8 1 hour 21 min.

Salmon rillettes

A terrine of two kinds of salmon (cooked and smoked) with butter and lemon.
March 26^th 2013279K4.3 2 hours 38 min.

Scallops with crunchy vegetables and wine sabayon

This is a bed of vegetables cut small, lightly cooked to stay crunchy. The scallops are cut in half and fried, filled with a morsel of foie gras, and served coated with a savoury reduced white wine sabayon. It entails some work, but the result is impresive.
June 11^th 2011303K4 2 hours 56 min.

Scallops with sorrel and Noilly Prat

Sorrel is often used with salmon, and very successfully, but it goes very well with scallops in this recipe, given a boost with Noilly Prat vermouth.
November 24^th 202124K 43 min.

Scrambled eggs with langoustines and asparagus tips.

For this dish, the langoustines and asparagus tips are sautéed bafore being mixed with the beaten eggs and finished like scrambled eggs.
August 28^th 201935K 50 min.

Seafood feuillantines

Little savoury "millefeuilles" with a very Breton taste of the sea: a mix of crab and salmon in a herb mayonnaise, piled up between crisp circles of buckwheat pancake.
April 28^th 201399K5 48 min.

Stock-pot fish

A julienne of vegetables (small sticks) mixed with choice morsels of fish, slowly cooked in vegetable stock.
December 31^th 2013306K4.3 2 hours 36 min.

Turban of sole with langoustines

The turban is made from a rolled fillet of sole poached in fish stock. Each turban is then filled with sautéed langoustines and a tasty cream sauce, flavoured with langoustine stock. This dish takes quite a long time to make because of the langoustine stock, but you will really impress your guests.
November 23^th 201490K4.1 1 hour 44 min.

"Au vert" beef

A piece of beef of your choice, grilled and accompanied by sautéed greens and beet tops.
June 18^th 202310K 36 min.

Cajun pulled pork

Pulled pork is a joint cooked long and slow so that it can be shredded easily with a fork. This Cajun-spiced version can be eaten like a classic meat meal or served in burger buns.
February 19^th 202336K 5 hours 16 min.

Chicken breasts in a potato crust

In this recipe, instant mashed potato powder is used to give an original crusty coating to the chicken breasts. These are fried and served with peas.
August 26^th 2012126K4.8 1 hour 3 min.

Lille style chicken

Chicken breasts and mushrooms, cooked separately, then mixed with a tasty cream sauce before serving. It's a dish with a "cuisiné" taste, but which unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare in restaurants.
May 10^th 2023353K3.8 50 min.

Pork Chops Champvallon style

Pork chops à la Champvallon are a nicely historic recipe of meat and potatoes in long cooking.
April 30^th 202316K 3 hours 8 min.

Pork Chops with Rosemary

This recipe is cooked in two stages: the chops are flash-fried in a pan, then finished more slowly in the oven. Towards the end of cooking, you can top the meat with slices of cheese, if you like.
February 3^rd 201650K4.6 26 min.

Pork medallions with "full" turnips

This recipe brings together sautéed medallions of pork filet mignon and turnips, pan-fried then filled with a creamy mixture made from their own green tops. As in all the best cookery, nothing is wasted.
December 30^th 201947K4.7 1 hour 4 min.

Roast pork with sage, cooked in a bag.

Pork goes particularly well with sage (true for white meats in general), but in this recipe, we'll bring out these flavours to the full by slow-cooking in a bag. The pork roasting joint is simply salted and peppered before being put in the bag and cooked for hours at low temperature. The delicious...
December 30^th 201976K4.6 3 hours 56 min.

Saltimbocca

Saltimbocca literally means "jumps into the mouth" in Italian. These delicious little meat rolls, made with veal, ham and sage, will do just that!
July 20^th 201570K4.9 40 min.

Sliced veal with leeks and mushrooms

Small strips of veal sautéed with mushrooms and leeks in a creamy sauce.
May 10^th 202317K 2 hours 6 min.

Steak burger topped with egg

A succulent steak burger, topped with a perfect egg. Here are all the tips you need to produce this simple but delicious dish.
June 22^th 2013253K4.9 52 min.

Tenderloin steaks marinated in red wine with rosemary

A recipe that brings out all the tenderness of this cut of beef, enhancing it with rosemary and by marinating for a long time in red wine. The tenderloin steaks are then fried and served with green beans.
September 19^th 202126K 12 hours 34 min.

Two-stage beef chuck

This recipe cooks beef chuck (or braising steak) in two stages: first, slow-cooked in red wine "in the bag", then fried and served with potato purée and a red-wine sauce.
April 27^th 2017100K4.3 3 hours 57 min.

Baked Mont d'Or with diced mixed vegetables

The classic hot box method is a delicious way to serve Mont d'Or cheese. For a more original twist, this recipe adds mixed vegetables. The cheese is baked in the oven as usual, but filled with the diced vegetables and mushrooms.
February 26^th 201749K3.8 58 min.

Baked potoatoes with herb butter or cream

Here's how to prepare good baked potatoes, and two ideas for toppings. Herb butter can be easily be made in advance and store in the fridge folded in plastic film, it can also be served with red meat because it look like very much to the "Beurre maitre d'hotel" (butler's butter, usually with parsley...
October 24^th 2010191K 13.8 1 hour 42 min.

Boulangère potatoes

This great classic of French home cooking consists of sliced potatoes with slivers of bacon between, on a bed of onion fondue, moistened with poultry (or beef) stock and baked in the oven. It takes a fairly long time, but is so good, and reheats very well.
April 5^th 202034K 2 1 hour 36 min.

Breton galettes (pancakes)

Of uniquely Breton origin, this is a buckwheat pancake on which you cook an egg with ham and cheese before folding it over. Easy and quick to make, it's an ideal answer to the question "what are we going to eat this evening?".
February 21^th 2011214K 23.9 16 min.

Breton Pie

This unusual pie from Brittany is made with piled-up layers of buckwheat pancakes (galettes), sandwiched with a filling of onion and bacon mixed with a little cream. The whole thing, assembled in a baking tin, is then browned in the oven.
October 25^th 201561K4.1 1 hour 9 min.

Cabbage julienne with ham

A quick recipe: cabbage julienne cooked English style, pan-fried ribbons of ham, a knob of butter and some parsley, and it's ready.
December 31^th 2013221K 34.1 27 min.

Cauliflower "moelleux" in ramekins

This melt-in-the-mouth cauliflower dish is a kind of purée, bound with a little potato and cooked in milk to add creamy smoothness. This makes a great accompaniment for meat, or as the main feature, served in ramekins with slivers of fried dry-cured ham.
March 3^rd 201951K 58 min.

Cauliflower and chickpea purée

Cauliflower and chickpeas go really well together. Here they are combined in a creamy purée which makes a delicious accompaniment for red meat, for example.
January 27^th 202136K 42 min.

Celeriac and mushroom gratin

This gratin combines sliced celeriac simmered in milk with fried mushrooms.
May 10^th 202371K5 1 hour 8 min.

Chicken Brussels pie

This is a novel twist on the well known cottage or shepherd's pie idea (minced meat topped with mashed potato). Why not try this "Brussels" pie with a mixture of mashed potato and Brussels sprouts on top of chopped chicken?
February 23^th 202039K5 1 hour 24 min.

Creamy artichokes

This hearty vegetable recipe uses the whole globe artichoke (heart and leaves), combining the creamy artichoke texture with the crunch of sautéed potatoes.
August 6^th 202028K 1 hour 18 min.

Creamy polenta with green asparagus

A deliberately creamy polenta (because we won't be grilling it afterwards), into which we'll add green asparagus and spring onion, cooked separately.
May 19^th 20246,328 44 min.

Creamy spinach and potato gratin

This is a gratin with a difference: before going in the oven, the layers of spinach and potato are topped with cream in which Mont d'Or cheese has been melted (or another cheese, if you prefer).
December 17^th 201763K4 1 hour 5 min.

Curried prawn risotto

In this recipe, the prawns are fried separately first with curry powder, then added to the risotto.
December 30^th 2019100K3.9 59 min.

Duet of creamed cauliflower and cabbage

For this creamy "duet", the cauliflower and cabbage are boiled first, then mixed just before serving with a reduced cream sauce.
July 4^th 202137K 52 min.

Filet mignon with asparagus

In this recipe, the filet mignon of pork is pan-fried and the pan deglazed with wine, then cream added with chunks of both green and white asparagus.
July 11^th 202121K 1 hour 2 min.

French-style peas

A traditional French recipe, "Petis pois à la Française", with a personal twist, but very easy to prepare. It is an ideal accompaniment for meat, poultry or even a grilled fillet of fish.
July 15^th 2012157K3.8 28 min.

Gratin Dauphinois

This recipe is a bit sensitive for people from Dauphiné (a French area around the city of Grenoble), many of them are sure to have the "true" recipe. Here is the version of the famous French chef Michel Guérard. The most interesting thing about gratin Dauphinois, is that it has a delicate hint of...
August 13^th 2016384K 25 1 hour 3 min.

Gratin of chicken with rice and sautéed mushrooms

This is a very simple gratin, mainly using leftovers (chicken and rice), ideal for a Sunday night supper.
May 10^th 202345K3.8 52 min.

Gratin Parmentier

Here, a potato gratin meets hachis Parmentier (minced beef topped with mashed potato): 2 layers of potato around a layer of pre-cooked minced meat.
May 1^st 201966K3.8 1 hour 22 min.

Gratin-style spinach and chicken omelette

A simple omelette treated more like a gratin: the omelette forms the bottom layer in the dish, topped with chicken and spinach in a cream sauce and browned in the oven.
August 16^th 202033K 43 min.

Green beans "Napoléon"

Apparently, Napoléon Bonaparte had a delicate stomach, so his cook made his cream sauces a little gentler with tomato. Here is a version for green beans, cooked in two stages, with a cream and tomato sauce.
August 11^th 202322K 18 min.

Green beans and potatoes with Morbier cream sauce

For this recipe, green beans and potatoes, cooked separately, are combined with a delicious Morbier cream.
September 15^th 20242,143 35 min.

Green beans with feta cream and basil

This quick recipe combines feta, basil and lemon cream with green beans cooked separately.
August 11^th 20243,659 27 min.

Green beans with tomatoes

Cut green beans simmered with tomatoes and mixed with onions and lightly fried lardons (or small pieces of bacon).
August 11^th 2023139K 14.7 1 hour 33 min.

Layered Leek and Egg Gratin

This gratin combines parboiled leeks with chopped hard-boiled eggs in thin layers.
January 10^th 201657K4.1 49 min.

Leek and broccoli "à la flamande"

Leeks "à la flamande" (Flemish style) are traditionally served with melted butter mixed with chopped hard-boiled eggs. In this version with broccoli, the vegetables are steamed and the sauce is pepped up with a little mustard.
December 12^th 202126K 44 min.

Morel risotto with Vin Jaune and Mont d'Or

This is a rather special risotto recipe with Morel mushrooms, cooked with Jura Vin Jaune wine, and with Mont d'Or cheese added just before serving to make it extra creamy. With the trio of morels, Vin Jaune and Mont d'Or, this is an ideal way to bring together the delicious flavours of the...
September 4^th 201855K3.8 1 hour 53 min.

Mushroom bourguignon

These bourguignon-style mushrooms are cooked in a similar way to the classic beef dish, simmered with red wine and onions – flavours that go really well with mushrooms.
May 10^th 202327K 29 min.

Mushroom buckwheat pancakes

The filling is prepared by frying ham and mushrooms with chopped shallot and a drizzle of lemon juice. The pancakes used here are Breton-style buckwheat "galettes" (often sold ready made in France), folded over the filling in the pan before serving.
May 10^th 202361K4.6 45 min.

New peas with almonds

For this very simple recipe, new peas are simply sautéed in butter with roasted slivered almonds.
May 12^th 20246,308 38 min.

Polenta with spinach and soft-poached egg

A "cake" of fried polenta, blanched spinach and a soft-poached egg on top, with a cream, shallot and white-wine sauce poured over just before serving.
June 3^rd 201867K5 1 hour 11 min.

Potato gratin

This classic French recipe is made with sliced potatoes baked in milk and browned on top.
February 21^th 20111.1M 14.6 1 hour 47 min.

Potato Waffles with Smoked Salmon

For potato waffles, the flour in the mixture for the sweet version is replaced with instant dried potato. This is a way of making delicious savoury waffles. Adding ribbons of smoked salmon, like here, turns them into a proper meal, though they can be also be served as an accompaniment.
April 22^th 201861K4.5 39 min.

Potatoes with bacon and herbs

The potatoes in this recipe are rolled in a slice of lightly cooked bacon with sage and bay leaves slipped in between. They are then baked in the oven.
November 14^th 201839K5 1 hour

Potimarron (chestnut pumpkin) "au gratin"

We could almost say a "Parmentier" of potimarron: a layer of left over cooked chicken, covered with potimarron purée and cheese, put to brown in the oven.
February 21^th 2011259K 24 1 hour 35 min.

Rillettes stuffed mushrooms

In this recipe, the mushroom caps are first sautéed, then filled with fried onions and a spoonful of rillettes, then baked in the oven. Here they are served with a quick pickle made from brunoise radishes with tarragon.
May 10^th 202335K3.8 58 min.

Roasted Cauliflower

Roasting cauliflower in the oven is a delicious way to enjoy the vegetable: golden-brown on the outside and melt-in-the-mouth inside. In this recipe, the cauliflower is blanched first, then brushed with herb butter before roasting in the oven.
March 27^th 201668K5 1 hour 12 min.

Roasted cauliflower

This is how Yotam Ottolenghi does roasted cauliflower: whole, served with a green parsley tahini sauce.
April 19^th 202040K 2 hours 32 min.

Salmon and Spinach Gratin

This gratin has a layer of spinach, a layer of salmon with tomato and a layer of potato purée topped with grated cheese.
January 27^th 201660K4.3 46 min.

Sausage buckwheat pancakes

This sausage pancake recipe is one of the better-known ways of using buckwheat pancakes. You will find it on the menu of all good French crêperies, but it is easy to make at home.
February 26^th 2012122K4.5 1 hour 27 min.

Sautéd broccoli with ham

Broccoli cooked until just tender, quickly sautéd in a little olive oil with shallot and ribbons of ham.
February 21^th 2011207K 14.3 49 min.

Sautéed green vegetables

Just fresh vegetables, each sautéed in turn in olive oil, then combined with chopped spring onions and parsley.
June 15^th 201475K4.1 1 hour 5 min.

Sautéed Green Vegetables in pan

A recipe full of gorgeous greens: broccoli, romanesco, Brussels sprouts and cabbage. The vegetables are cooked separately in stock before being lightly sautéed with shallot. This is a simple dish, though it takes a while to prepare, and is delicious, light and healthy.
December 2^nd 201563K4.1 37 min.

Sautéed oyster mushrooms

When oyster mushrooms are about, it's worth making the most of them. Why not try this very simple sauté recipe? The mushrooms are fried and finished with just a little parsley and lemon juice.
January 6^th 202137K 22 min.

Scallop and leek pancakes

These pancakes are filled with pan-fried scallops and creamed leeks.
March 6^th 202061K4.3 13 min.

Shiitake eggs

By French standards, this hardly qualifies as an omelette: beaten eggs, simply slammed in the pan with sautéed shiitake mushrooms in soy sauce.
March 7^th 202144K4.2 34 min.

Sliced chicken with mushrooms and broccoli

Blanched broccoli sautéed quickly with thin slices of fried chicken.
May 10^th 2023153K4.5 1 hour 4 min.

Smoky potato and potimarron gratin

This gratin has an unusual twist: it not only combines potatoes with potimarron, the potatoes are boiled in the water left after cooking a Morteau sausage, to give a lovely smoky flavour. Guaranteed to transport your tastebuds to eastern France!
March 13^th 201941K 2 hours 10 min.

Smoky sausage and mash

This is sausage and mash with a smoky Gallic twist: the smoked sausage (Morteau sausage here) is cooked in with the potatoes, so that they take on its smoky flavour. The potatoes are turned into a French-style purée – softer and richer than British mash.
July 21^th 202128K 1 hour 35 min.

Snow peas sautéed in butter

Here's a quick and easy recipe for spring, when snow peas arrive on the shelves, and it's so simple and delicious just to sauté them in butter with a chopped shallot. This can be a stand-alone dish, or a side dish for meat or fish.
June 2^nd 20245,846 29 min.

Sorrel omelette

A sorrel omelette is, unsurprisingly, a classic omelette with chopped sorrel added, but it is also served with a reduced cream and sorrel sauce.
June 1^st 202220K 47 min.

Spicy roast cauliflower gratin

The cauliflower in this recipe is cooked two different ways: first oven-roasted with chilli spices, then finished with a creamy gratin topping, made with its own trimmings.
March 20^th 202220K 1 hour 23 min.

Spinach Omelette

An ultra-simple but delicious omelette recipe. The beaten eggs are poured over spinach that has already been cooked with shallots.
May 1^st 201675K4.7 17 min.

Steamed leeks with morel sabayon

For this very simple recipe, steamed leeks (cooked in 2 stages) are served with a sabayon made with mushroom "jus", preferably from morels. The sabayon is the major taste element in this dish, and adds a delicious woodland-mushroom flavour.
June 11^th 201739K4.1 37 min.

The strange gratin

Here is a recipe for a gratin that is a little unusual in its ingredients, which allows the use of vegetable tops and leftover cheese, but for a very successful taste despite everything.
July 20^th 202218K 1 hour 30 min.

Two-cheese vegetable gratin

This is a vegetable gratin with a difference: 3 layers of different vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli and aubergine) with two different cheeses for a flavousome topping: Comté and Époisse.
October 16^th 201945K4 1 hour 23 min.

Welsh-style potato purée

A Welsh-style twist on the classic potato purée (posh mash!), with finely sliced leeks, cooked until just done to keep their lovely green colour. This dish could be the main feature or served on the side with meat, for example.
December 26^th 202119K 25 min.

White bean gratin "à l'italienne"

White haricot beans enriched with the Mediterranean flavours of tomatoes and herbs. The beans are boiled first then mixed with chopped tomatoes and finished gratin-style in the oven.
August 25^th 202125K 13 hours 2 min.

Amandier (gluten-free almond cake)

This gluten-free cake is called "amandier" in French, as it is made with ground almonds instead of flour (the same word also means almond tree). The texture is moist and the flavour is, well, almondy.
October 4^th 202033K 1 hour 8 min.

Apple and almond gratin

Imagine a gratin, but sweet, made with apples and toasted ground almonds. This delicious dessert combines apples and almonds with a vanilla custard-like mixture - simply yummy!
February 8^th 201751K4.6 1 hour 5 min.

Apple Batter Puddings

Similar to a traditional French "clafoutis", usually made with cherries, this simple apple and almond dessert is quick to make.
March 30^th 201649K4.7 41 min.

Apple Tatin Terrine

Imagine a sweet terrine, made of layers of apples with sugar, cooked slowly in the oven until caramelized. Serve warm in slices with custard.
December 14^th 201474K4.1 3 hours 28 min.

Baked apples from St Aubin le Vertueux

Under this pretty name, my personal version of "Les pommes au four" (baked apples).
February 21^th 2011243K 24.2 1 hour 7 min.

Chaud-froid of grapefruit, pineapple and lime custard

Cold grapefruit quarters with slices of hot caramelized pineapple, lime custard (crème anglaise) and citrus crunch.
December 20^th 2010253K4.5 2 hours 5 min.

Chestnut moelleux

"Moelleux" means soft, and is also the name given to the gooey, soft-centred cakes that are popular in France. These muffin-style cakes are doubly chestnutty: there is chestnut purée in the mixture and pieces of marrons glacés (candied chestnuts) in the middle as well. The result is a little...
February 11^th 201846K 15 1 hour 13 min.

Chocolate mousse

Here is a simple quick recipe for chocolate mousse. It is just necessary to be careful at the final stage, when mixing the melted chocolate and the beaten egg-whites.
February 21^th 2011470K3.7 40 min.

Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette"

This "Marie-Antoinette" clafoutis is a lighter version of the traditional fruit-in-batter baked dessert, almost a soufflé, with apples and lemon. The apples are sautéed in butter and Calvados, then combined with a lemon-flavoured confectioner's custard, lightened with raw meringue. This mixture is...
November 1^st 201743K4.9 1 hour 17 min.

Confit Victoria pineapple with honey and spices

In this fairly straightforward recipe pineapple wedges are poached gently in a honey syrup flavoured with vanilla and star anise. This transforms the pineapple into flavoursome morsels that melt in the mouth.
March 10^th 202129K 1 hour 12 min.

Passion fruit jellies

Usually to make fruit jellies or (fruit "paste"), it's like jam but you need to cook fruit pulp and sugar much longer. Unfortunately, this long cooking is bad for both vitamins and flavour. In this recipe we use a special jam gelling agent, to reduce cooking time as much as possible .
July 4^th 2018326K4 2 hours 30 min.

Rice pudding with fruit and nuts

This is cooked like a normal rice pudding, but with fruit and nuts added halfway through: toasted almonds and pistachios, sautéed diced apple and strips of dried apricot. These added flavours and textures make an already creamy rice pudding even more delicious.
June 18^th 201738K4.5 1 hour 5 min.

Tatin apples with mascarpone cream

Small pieces of apple cooked "tatin" style (caramelized in a pan) with a light mascarpone cream.
November 20^th 2011177K4.3 1 hour 3 min.

Almond cream or frangipane

Light and delicious, it is used in a lot of desserts like tarts, cakes and pies (epiphany galette).
January 23^th 2022447K 25 44 min.

Beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce is a great classic of French cuisine, made with vinegar, white wine and shallots. It is a wonderful accompaniment for fish and shellfish.
February 2^nd 2012173K3.8 35 min.

Beurre d'escargot

Beurre d'escargot is the typically French flavoured butter added to snails before they go into the oven. In principal, this a simple mixture of butter, chopped parsley and garlic, but here is a more sophisticated gastronomic version with a flavour that simply oozes French savoir-faire.
November 7^th 201861K3 51 min.

Butter cream

Butter cream is made with egg yolk, sugar syrup and, of course, butter. These days it has fallen rather out of fashion, probably because it's very rich, but it still has its aficionados. Here is the classic plain version, which you can lighten and flavour as you wish.
October 13^th 2010318K4.6 58 min.

Chocolate sauce

This rich smooth chocolate sauce, with its full flavour, is one of the indispensable ingredients of profiteroles, but it can be used with many others desserts.
February 21^th 2011298K 24 32 min.

Clarified butter

This is a way of melting butter to eliminate all the impurities. The clarified butter can then be heated without spoiling, and is more digestible. It is ideal for cooking at high temperatures where small black specks would spoil the appearance, or for emulsified sauces like béarnaise or mousseline.
June 21^th 2017453K4.2 2 hours 14 min.

Clementine confectioner's custard

This clementine confectioner's custard makes the most of the delicious fruity flavour by using both the juice and zest.
January 23^th 202230K 30 min.

Clementine Creamy

A clementine cremeux is a little different from cremeux based on pulpy fruits (such as blackcurrant or raspberry), this time more juice is used and the zest.
January 18^th 202319K2 2 hours 36 min.

Cream sauce with Vin Jaune

This sauce made with Vin Jaune ("yellow wine") is emblematic of Comtoise cuisine from Eastern France. It combines the smoothness of cream with the slight acidity and typical flavour of the Vin Jaune. The tricky aspect of cooking with Vin Jaune is that its fugitive flavour tends to disappear when...
October 3^rd 2018198K4 46 min.

Diplomat cream

Diplomat cream or "crème Madame" (a much prettier name) is one of many creams in French pâtisserie based on confectioner's custard. The classic confectioner's custard (crème pâtissière, or french pastry cream) has gelatin added while hot, then whipped cream is folded in when cold. This gives a...
October 30^th 201962K 1 hour 47 min.

Fruit crémeux

This kind of "crémeux" (it means "creamy", but contains no actual cream) is a basic recipe in the repertoire of French pastry chefs. It is smoother but less frothy than a mousse and uses gelatin to set it as it cools. Often used as a tart filling or in other desserts, crémeux is usually poured to...
September 12^th 2020170K2.5 40 min.

Green bean purée

Green (or French) beans are usually served whole, for instance as an accompanying vegetable or in a salad, but they make a good purée, too. This is tasty on its own, but also goes very well with meats, and children usually prefer it to "normal" beans.
August 11^th 202376K 23 min.

Lime (or lemon) curd

Lime curd is a delicious conserve and variation on the traditional lemon curd, made with limes, eggs and butter. It's the perfect filling for either large or small tarts.
July 10^th 2011156K5 54 min.

Lime confectioner's custard (pastry cream)

Taking its inspiration from lemon confectioner's custard, this version has a distinctive lime flavour. Both juice and zest are used to combine the juice's slight acidity with a hint of bitterness from the zest.
July 21^th 201994K3.5 56 min.

Lime crémeux

This "crémeux" is a creamy mixture ideal for filling tarts, either on its own or as a bottom layer topped with fruit, for example.
April 14^th 202163K1 46 min.

Marchand de vin sauce

The rich "marchand de vin" sauce, made with red wine and shallot, is a classic accompaniment for meats that is traditionally made in the roasting tin or dish. This is a simplified version that can be made while the meat is cooking, even beforehand, so there is no risk of it going cold.
May 31^th 2012260K4.1 34 min.

Mushroom duxelles

A duxelles consists of finely sliced mushrooms cooked in butter with shallots. It is more of a preparation than a dish in its own right, which can be used in other recipes.
May 10^th 202348K 24 min.

Noisette butter

"Noisette" means hazelnut in French. Noisette butter is made by melting butter, then boiling and raising it to a high temperature until it takes on both a light brown hazelnut colour and also a characteristic nutty smell. Compared with simple clarified butter, this noisette butter has a delicate...
December 30^th 2019119K4.5 15 min.

Onion fondue

Onion fondue is a delicious classic of French cuisine: finely-sliced onions, cooked long and slow until they are melting and caramelized. This can be used in many other recipes.
March 25^th 2020133K 50 min.

Paris flan filling

This is how to prepare the custard filling for a classic Parisian "flan". This is not the whole recipe, just the filling mixture, which can be used in lots of other flan-style recipes on this site.
February 25^th 202361K5 41 min.

Pilau rice

Pilau rice (also called "restaurant rice" in France) is a way of cooking rice that's very different from using a rice-cooker. In this recipe, the rice is first "pearled" with onion in olive oil, then chicken stock is added, and the whole lot is put in the oven. This produces a very tasty moist rice,...
February 21^th 2011379K 14.4 33 min.

Pistachio cream

Very similar to almond cream, pistachio cream is ideal for filling or topping all kinds of cakes and tarts. Just like almond cream, it swells during cooking.
October 4^th 2012296K 64.1 33 min.

Potato purée

The French have fond childhood memories of this, and while nothing will ever be as good as "Maman" made, here's a fairly straightforward way to make it.
October 3^rd 2010232K5 1 hour 35 min.

Potimarron (Japanese chestnut pumpkin) purée

Potimarron can be easily made into purée, you don't need to peel it, which makes for a quick and delicious recipe.
October 13^th 2010321K4.6 1 hour 12 min.

Rich hazelnut buttercream

This delicious preparation is an alternative to almond frangipane: a nutty buttercream enriched with eggs, designed to be cooked into various pastries.
November 15^th 2017149K4.1 40 min.

Scrambled eggs (Oeufs brouillés)

French-style scrambled eggs are rather special. It's not very difficult, just a bit long because it's cooked slowly in a bain-marie. Eventually you will get a delicious, refined and delicate preparation which can be eaten "as it is" or added to another recipe.
February 21^th 2011264K5 30 min.

How to cook rice in rice-cooker

Cooking rice in a specially adapted "rice-cooker" is practical and quick: you don't have to watch it during cooking, it's fast (15 minutes) and the rice-cooker switches automatically to "keep warm".
February 21^th 2011911K 24.9 20 min.

How to fry eggs well

You've probably heard the expression: "S/he can't even cook an egg," suggesting that the person referred is a hopeless cook. In reality, frying eggs well isn't as easy as it might appear. The two most frequent errors: the white develops a brown crust around the outside which is unpleasant in the...
March 11^th 2018498K 14.6 20 min.

How to prepare cockles

Cockles are small Atlantic shellfish which can be used in many delicious dishes. However, they need to be prepared with care before cooking. Here is a simple way to do this.
March 13^th 2013533K 13.7 1 hour 52 min.

How to prepare spinach

For most people (and me most of all), spinach brings back bad memories of canteens... But, well prepared, it's a fine and delicate vegetable which goes remarkably well with scrambled eggs, fish, and many another things. Here are two ways of preparing it.
June 5^th 20153.4M3.5 1 hour 9 min.

How to prevent butter burning during cooking

Butter, which is excellent for fixing flavours in a recipe, burns if the temperature is too high. It darkens and produces unpleasant small black specks (by the way, note that the famous recipe "raie au beurre noir", ray in black butter, is a kind of sacrilege!).
February 21^th 2011133K 24.1 3 min.

Colcannon

Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish, made by mixing creamy mashed potatoes (or purée) with cabbage, chives and spring onions. There are many different versions and ways to adapt this classic recipe. My version here serves it with baked sausages.
April 23^th 201747K4 1 hour 8 min.

Nachos

Nachos (or tortilla chips) are small Tex-Mex snack triangles, often served with guacamole. Authentic nachos are made from tortillas, cut into triangles and fried, but here is a lighter, oven-baked version. The recipe is very simple, though the cutting out is a bit of work, and I've given you 2...
November 4^th 202038K 1 hour 6 min.

Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole)

This hash-brown recipe is an American version of the classic grated potato cake (like roesti), baked in a pan. In the USA hash browns are often served for breakfast.
May 24^th 2012113K3.8 1 hour 46 min.

Pavlova

Pavlova is a dessert which originated in New Zealand (or was it Australia?). It consists of a meringue shell filled with a layer of whipped cream and topped with seasonal fruit.
March 24^th 2013114K4.3 2 hours 34 min.

Potatoes with prawns

This recipe, originally from Belgium, consists of baked potatoes which are hollowed out and filled with fried prawns. A cream and white wine sauce is then poured over the potatoes before returning them to the oven.
January 14^th 2016114K3.8 1 hour 49 min.