List of recipes using Cream: 92 recipes (alcohol-free)

Green beans with tomato cream sauce

Potimarron (chestnut pumpkin) "au gratin"

A short selection of recipes from this list

List of recipes using Cream

Starters : 11 recipes
Sea food : 7 recipes
Meat : 4 recipes
Miscellanous : 43 recipes
Desserts : 18 recipes
Baking : 1 recipe
Basic recipes : 9 recipes
World recipes : 1 recipe

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Starters

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 202214K 46 min.

Fried rounds of courgette in a puff pastry case with a feta and mint filling. You will find that this combination of feta with mint gives an agreeable fresh lift to this tart.
June 11^th 2011160K4.1 1 hour 23 min.

Du Barry soup

Du Barry is a creamy cauliflower soup, including small whole pieces of cauliflower.
October 17^th 2018258K4.5 1 hour 1 min.

Eggs Arsène

Eggs Arsène is a rather more rustic version (and definitely more Comtoise in style) of eggs Benedict , that indispensible breakfast dish in Ian Fleming's novels. And you're right, there is a nod to James Bond here.
October 25^th 201846K5 1 hour 2 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 202127K2 1 hour 29 min.

Mini cheese and mustard toasts

For an aperitif snack with a difference, try these little toasted slices of baguette topped with cheese and mustard. Easy to make and can be served in a jiffy.
June 28^th 202060K 24 min.

Mushroom velouté

This smooth, creamy soup with its lovely mushroom flavour is quick and easy to make.
May 10^th 2023142K4 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 202361K4.1 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 2020289K 24.6 2 hours 5 min.

Thin summer tart "à la grecque"

A fresh, summery tart with a thin base of pre-cooked puff pastry, spread with a cream-feta mixture, and topped with slices of tomato and cucumber.
July 18^th 202119K 51 min.

Vol-au-vent

The classic vol-au-vent of French cuisine consists of a very light puff pastry case (supposedly so light that it could fly off in the lightest puff of wind) with a cream-based filling. There are many different recipes for fillings. This version uses bacon, chicken, mushrooms and leeks.
October 20^th 2013140K4.3 1 hour 23 min.

Sea food

Fish Mousselines

Mousselines are a lighter version of the classic French quenelles, but without breadcrumbs. They are poached first in fumet (fish stock), then served "en gratin" in sauce normande.
December 29^th 201879K 24.3 38 min.

Fisherman's Ragout

This ragout combines vegetables (cut small and cooked until just tender in vegetable stock) with a mix of cockles and chunks of fish, all simmered together with cream and saffron.
December 30^th 201995K4.1 2 hours 17 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 2010263K 13.9 1 hour 14 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 201947K 1 hour

Nicholas's fish

This is a very easy recipe, everything hinges on the brief cooking of the leeks, then the fish.
February 21^th 2011242K4.8 56 min.

Quick prawn curry

A very quick way to prepare a creamy prawn curry with lime and spring onion.
August 12^th 2015123K5 34 min.

Stock-pot fish

A julienne of vegetables (small sticks) mixed with choice morsels of fish, slowly cooked in vegetable stock.
December 31^th 2013305K4.3 2 hours 36 min.

Meat

Escalope of veal in a cream sauce

Escalopes of veal, mushrooms and a cream sauce.
May 10^th 2023249K4.6 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 2023352K3.8 50 min.

Loin of pork with herbs and julienne vegetables

Pork loin is cut into individual portions, which are split and filled with herbs before cooking. They are served with crunchy julienne vegetables and a cream sauce.
November 27^th 2015350K4.2 2 hours 33 min.

Quick chicken curry

This curry is quick to make if you have left over cooked chicken, and is always delicious.
August 25^th 2011263K5 33 min.

Miscellanous

"Day After Pork Belly" Soup

If you have made cured pork belly with lentils, you will no doubt have some of the stock left from cooking the meat and lentils. This will be full of flavour, so can be turned into a quick and delicious soup. Here's how to do it.
November 15^th 201552K4.1 35 min.

Alpine gratin

In this somewhat atypical gratin, you'll find a layer of diced meats, covered by a layer of crozets and cream, then cheese.
October 18^th 20239,757 1 hour

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 2010190K 13.8 1 hour 42 min.

Baker's chicken and potato tart

A baker's tart is made with bread dough. It is sometimes called a baker's pizza, but this version has no tomatoes. It is topped with potatoes and slices of herb-poached chicken on a bed of cream and cheese with more herbs.
June 16^th 201947K 1 hour 23 min.

Baker's tuna and mushroom tart

A baker's tart, sometimes called a baker's pizza, is a tart with a base made of bread dough. This version, without tomatoes, combines tuna with mushrooms.
May 10^th 202338K 1 hour 2 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 201560K4.1 1 hour 9 min.

Cassoulet-style shepherd's pie.

You may well have come across hachis parmentier, the French version of shepherd's pie. Here's a variation using puréed haricot beans, inspired by another classic French dish: cassoulet.
June 3^rd 202036K 54 min.

Celeriac and mushroom gratin

This gratin combines sliced celeriac simmered in milk with fried mushrooms.
May 10^th 202370K5 1 hour 8 min.

Chicken and mushroom pie

This lovely pie has a puff pastry crust filled with a mixture of fried mushrooms, diced chicken and parsley, all bound in a cream sauce.
May 10^th 202391K 14.4 1 hour 40 min.

Country-style spring pasta

Pasta, cooked on the side, to which beans are added, and a cream sauce with bacon and sage.
July 7^th 20242,107 1 hour 4 min.

Courgettes (zuchinis)

A classic gratin, but with the courgettes cooked separately to prevent too much juice being released during the oven cooking, and so make a dish that is barely moist.
October 13^th 2010496K 13.7 1 hour 20 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 20245,413 44 min.

Creamy rice with spinach

For this simple recipe, rice is mixed with a shallot cream before adding cooked spinach.
May 28^th 202311K 18 min.

Crispy rolls with chicken and leek

Finely sliced leeks are cooked with a shallot, to which is added leftover chicken with a little cream and parmesan. This mixture is rolled up in filo pastry, and cooked in the oven.
February 21^th 2011228K5 49 min.

Feta and spinach brik pie

In this recipe, a feta and cream filling is sandwiched between layers of spinach and wrapped in brik (or filo) pastry.
December 10^th 201474K 24.8 55 min.

Gratin Comtois

This version of Gratin Comtois begins like the classic gratin dauphinois, but uses Morbier cheese, and diced Morteau sausage for a hint of smoky flavour. There's no denying it, this is a rich and hearty dish!
April 7^th 202127K 1 hour 13 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 2016383K 25 1 hour 3 min.

Gratin of beet tops and potatoes

In a very classic gratin, here's a pairing that's a little less classic: beet tops with potatoes. The tops add a slight bitterness that complements the sweetness of the potatoes, cream and cheese.
October 8^th 20238,871 55 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 202032K 43 min.

Green beans with tomato cream sauce

Green beans, cooked separately, are added to a tomato cream made with pan-fried cherry tomatoes with herbs.
September 27^th 20239,215 1 hour 7 min.

Hot sesame-cream chicken tartines

Slices of lightly toasted bread topped with sesame and tarragon cream, morsels of chicken and a little grated cheese. Just popped in the oven for a few minutes to brown. [Translator's note: in French, a tartine is simply a slice of bread spread with something (butter, jam...) or an open sandwich,...
January 22^th 202031K 26 min.

Individual creamy endive gratins

In this recipe, the endives are first blanched, then baked with cream and mushrooms in individual cassolettes (small gratin dishes or large ramekins).
May 10^th 2023118K4.6 1 hour 5 min.

Leek and egg frichti

A "frichti" is a rough-and-ready dish, born of the French bistro tradition, that you can throw together with what you have to hand. This version mixes leeks with hard-boiled eggs, cream and ham.
September 26^th 202122K 40 min.

Montagnon rice

This rustic dish, with a nod to the mountains of eastern France, combines pre-cooked rice with morsels of smoked sausage and globe artichokes.
June 22^th 202214K 43 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 202360K4.6 45 min.

Mushroom Pancakes au Gratin

This recipe uses pan-fried mushrooms and shallots in cream as the filling for Breton "galettes": traditional buckwheat pancakes. The stuffed pancakes are then baked gratin-style with cheese and cream.
May 10^th 2023124K4.6 55 min.

Mushroom tart

Puff pastry, cream and mushroom "duxelle" are the perfect combination to create an elegant savoury tart with a crisp, flaky base.
May 10^th 202324K 52 min.

Nanou's tuna tart

Crisp puff pastry topped with tuna, mushrooms and cooked shallots.
May 10^th 2023118K4.2 1 hour 36 min.

New York style pasta

Pasta served like in NYC: tagliatelle or spaghetti with lightly fried ham, peas and a nutmeg-flavoured cream sauce.
July 1^st 201392K4.3 46 min.

Pasta with green asparagus

In this recipe, the pasta is cooked separately, then mixed with chunks of green asparagus, ribbons of smoked ham and a cream sauce with nutmeg.
July 21^th 201391K3.9 1 hour 8 min.

Potato and cheese pie

For this very simple recipe, a layer of cheese is placed in a shortcrust pastry base, followed by potato slices and a little cream before browning in the oven.
September 20^th 20238,086 54 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.

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 2011258K 24 1 hour 35 min.

Potimarron and Parmesan tart

This moist tart has a shortcrust pastry case, filled with a mixture of potimarron purée and Parmesan, bound with egg.
December 12^th 201835K 2 hours 14 min.

Quartet of brassicas with cream

Four kinds of brassicas (Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, romanesco and broccoli), blanched separately, then combined to finish with cream and chopped parsley.
January 16^th 2013137K4.6 2 hours 41 min.

Rice à la grecque

Rice cooked "à la grecque" (Greek-style) is enlivened with sautéed leeks and mushrooms, cream and feta, to which the cooked rice is added at the end. This is a hearty dish, usually served in its cooking pot in the centre of the table, so everyone can help themselves.
October 28^th 202039K 48 min.

Sliced cauliflower with 3 cheeses

Thin slices of blanched cauliflower, fried strips of cured ham and 3 different types of cheese grated and gently melted to bind everything together.
March 6^th 201389K5 50 min.

Spaghetti Carbonara

A very famous Italian pasta recipe: egg yolks, cream, bacon, Parmesan and lemon juice.
February 21^th 2011330K 24.8 24 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 202219K 1 hour 23 min.

Spinach à la Lorraine

Smoked bacon, shallots and cream to accompany spinach cooked separately, to form a very gourmet dish.
February 21^th 20247,502 31 min.

Spinach and Mushrooms with Pesto

For this simple recipe, thinly sliced and sautéed mushrooms, accompanied by cooked spinach, are combined with a pesto sauce.
May 10^th 202311K 17 min.

Tuna pasta

This is typical Sunday night fare, or for when you've simply had enough of cooking. An easy but delicious, creamy combination of pasta and tuna.
March 14^th 202133K 15 min.

Desserts

"BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits

These are similar to the BN biscuits so well-known in France. They are a sandwich of chocolate filling between two layers of biscuit. Children adore them!
March 21^th 2011202K 24.6 5 hours 12 min.

Almond mug cake for Mary

Mug cakes are fun and quick to make. They cook in the microwave in about a minute and a half. This almond version is similar to the small cakes known as financiers.
June 22^th 2014103K4.3 9 min.

Apple macaronade

This gratin-style apple pudding has an almond "macaronade" crust for a delicious combination of flavours.
December 27^th 202026K 1 hour 15 min.

Bounty-style tart for Alison

This Bounty-style tart combines, as you might expect, chocolate and coconut in a sweetcrust pastry case.
June 2^nd 2015127K 14 1 hour 34 min.

Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake

The apples in this recipe are caramelized in a mixture of butter and sugar, then cooled before being added to the "moelleux" batter (which makes a soft, moist cake). The result is a delicious cake combining apple and caramel flavours.
November 7^th 202119K 1 hour 56 min.

Chocolate cake

A traditional-style recipe for a moist chocolate cake with plenty of chocolate flavour.
December 25^th 201572K 44 1 hour 16 min.

Chocolate cream

A very simple recipe with a really chocolatey taste. Cream, milk and chocolate, mixed with egg-yolks and sugar, then cooked in the oven in a bain-marie, like for crème brulée.
October 13^th 2010257K4.2 3 hours 6 min.

Chocolate muffins

Variation on muffins recipe. In this version each one is filled with a dark chocolate ganache.
February 21^th 2011307K4.3 1 hour 15 min.

Chocolate tart

As you can see, there's very little added sugar in this recipe, so it's a very chocolatey and bitter-sweet tart.
November 16^th 2013286K 15 2 hours 26 min.

Chocolate-verbena cream

A chocolate cream with delicious aromas of fresh verbena.
June 30^th 20242,394 2 hours 4 min.

Crème brulée

Crème brûlée (burned cream) is quite easy to prepare: it's a simple egg-cream dessert. The only difficulty is in making the delicious crunchy caramel layer on top. The perfect crème brulée (for me) is a cold and soft cream, with on top a nice hot caramel crust. This is a completely new version...
December 31^th 20111.6M 74.3 4 hours 38 min.

Elsa's Comtoise galette

This galette is a classic Comtois dessert that resembles choux pastry (pâte à choux).
January 20^th 201390K4 46 min.

Grapefruit moelleux

The french love their "moelleux" — moist fondant cakes, often with a melting centre. These little mini-moelleux are flavoured with grapefruit. The grapefruit flavour is brought out fully by using a combination of juice, zest and candied peel.
March 24^th 201947K5 1 hour 7 min.

Household cake (Gâteau de ménage)

A traditional recipe from Franche-comté, it's a flat round kind of brioche, covered with an egg cream called "Goumeau".
June 15^th 2020491K 25 3 hours 59 min.

Leopard cake

Under this little name, which will please children a lot, is a marbled vanilla-chocolate cake where the chocolate is inserted in the form of lines, which gives to the cut this famous pattern, which imitates the coat of the leopard.
March 12^th 202314K1 4 hours 10 min.

Soft apple cookies

This French twist on the famous American treats delivers delicious apple flavour in cookies that are a little softer than usual.
December 5^th 202121K 57 min.

Tarte à l'coloche

This is a tart from northern France combining apples with caramel. The name in the ch'ti dialect means "bubble tart", on account of the bubbles made by the caramel while it is cooking.
October 20^th 202121K 1 hour 47 min.

Baking

Chocolate rolls (petits pains)

Here is a recipe for "real" chocolate petits pains, i.e. with a milk bread dough (not croissants dough) and with a stick of chocolate inside.
October 30^th 2021430K4.6 5 hours 27 min.

Basic recipes

"Moelleux" cake batter

This French-style "moelleux" cake batter gives a softer, moister texture than a classic cake batter. It can be made plain or varied with different flavourings.
January 26^th 202228K5 19 min.

Basic cake batter - the French way

The French have adopted the word "cake" for one that will stand up to being transported (usually made a loaf tin and sometimes called a "travel cake" in French). There are many versions, but here is a new basic recipe to which you can your choice of flavours (pistachio, lemon, chocolate...) and...
November 18^th 202039K 17 min.

Chocolate ganache

A chocolate ganache is a mixture of cream and chocolate made while hot. This gives a kind of paste which solidifies somewhat as it cools but remains fairly soft. This is the filling used in many chocolates.
January 25^th 2022320K 13.7 15 min.

Clafoutis batter

Clafoutis is a cake from the Limousin region of France, made with a liquid batter similar to pancake batter, into which fruit is added before baking. Here's a recipe for clafoutis batter, which you can use with any fruit you like.
August 23^th 202313K5 5 min.

Clementine Chantilly

As the Clementine season is now in full swing, I would like to tempt you to try this surprisingly different clementine-flavoured Chantilly. The recipe is very simple but delicious.
February 2^nd 202227K 20 min.

Cream and herb dressing

A quick and easy recipe for a cream and herb dressing to go with all kinds of dishes, from simple jacket potatoes to fish.
June 12^th 202217K 13 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 202374K 23 min.