Recipes: 119 results
Pear tart with almond cream
(Found inTexts)This is a very quick and easy tart to make, as everything (or almost) can be done in advance. A piece of sweetcrust pastry, some almond cream and pears? You have "everything you need".
March 17th 2011374 K4.3 1 hour 15 min.
Flambéd bananas
(Found inTexts)The trick of this recipe is to end up with bananas caramelised on the outside, still firm on the inside, coated with a tasty syrup which is not 95% butter.
February 21th 2011338 K 14 40 min.
Soft fruits in sabayon
(Found inTextsStages)This recipe is made by briefly cooking an assortment of soft fruits (raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, currants...) with a little sugar to glaze them. They are served in a small dish, covered with a delicious sabayon which can be lightly "burned" on surface.
February 21th 2011275 K3.9 50 min.
Montbenoit's canapés
(Found inTexts)A recipe from Franche-comté (lovely region of eastern France): large slices of bread coated with melted shallot, grilled bacon dice, a big slice of Morbier (cheese from the same region) and a brief spell in the oven. It really is a winter dish.
October 13th 2010286 K4.6 1 hour 45 min.
Sesame fried scampi
(Found inTextsStages)Scampi, coated with a sesame crust, fried quickly, and served with a herb salad.
November 11th 2012310 K5 35 min.
Scallops with crunchy vegetables and wine sabayon
(Found inTextsStages)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 11th 2011320 K4 2 hours 60 min.
How to glaze a tart
(Found inTexts)Professional pastrycooks usually say that "a beautiful cake is already half sold", it is one of the reasons why they do not put a tart on sale without glazing it ("abricoter" in Fench), i.e. coating it with a thick apricot syrup. This glaze gives a glossy finish to the tart (see the photographs below) and also protects it from the air and thus from oxidation and browning. It's a quite simple technique that you can easily apply to give to your desserts a professional look. This is how you do it.
February 15th 2016465 K4.4 7 min.
How to prevent peeled fruit or vegetables turning brown
(Found inTexts)Most fruits turn brown soon after peeling due to oxydation, and this is unattractive. To prevent this, you will find many recipes that tell you to coat them with lemon juice as soon as they are peeled. It's relatively effective when fruit are simply to be used peeled, but if you want to make a coulis or a sorbet for example, this is no longer sufficient.
February 21th 2011126 K4 1 min.
Crunchy little pieces of fish
(Found inTexts)Small pieces of fish, dipped in beated egg then in breadcrumbs, and fried. Preferably serve with something with slightly acidic like herb salad, or Béarnaise sauce.
February 21th 2011276 K5 50 min.
Pan-fried potatoes
(Found inTextsStages)What could be simpler than fried potatoes? No need of a recipe for that! Quite right, but it's also very easy to end up making fried mash instead. Here are the main pitfalls to avoid.
February 3rd 2011309 K4.5 1 hour 40 min.
Salmon chard rolls
(Found inTexts)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 August 8th 2010180 K3.8 1 hour 25 min.
Sausage with duchess potatoes and a Mont d'Or fondue
(Found inTextsStages)The duchess potatoes are poached in a roll before being sliced and fried. They are served in alternate layers with slices of sausage, also cooked in two stages (boiled then fried), then topped with a fondue of Mont d'Or cheese.
December 12th 2010204 K3.9 2 hours 15 min.
Like Bounty
(Found inTextsStages)You will no doubt be familiar with Bounty, the chocolate-covered coconut bar. Here's a melt-in-the-mouth version "on a plate" for a chic dessert.
August 1st 2011157 K4.6 1 hour 55 min.
Praline rochers
(Found inTextsStages)Here is how to prepare your own chocolate rochers with a chocolate praline filling covered in milk chocolate and chopped torrified almonds.
August 28th 2011205 K5 3 hours 15 min.
Fish in a sesame crust
(Found inTextsStages)Fish portions cooked in 2 stages: first in the pan, then in the oven, covered with a sesame paste which turns crisp when baked.
February 28th 2012168 K4.4 45 min.
Wiener Schnitzel
(Found inTexts)A Wiener schnitzel is a thin veal cutlet (escalope) coated in breadcrumbs.
September 7th 2018151 K4.1 1 hour 20 min.
Chicken breasts in a potato crust
(Found inTextsStages)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 26th 2012142 K4.8 1 hour 3 min.
Peach Melba
(Found inTexts)Peach Melba is a famous dessert created in 1893 by an equally famous chef, Auguste Escoffier, and inspired by the singer Nellie Melba. There have been many versions of this well-known dish but, in principal, it consists of vanilla ice cream, poached peaches, raspberry coulis and sweetened whipped cream (Chantilly). This is a simplified version.
September 9th 2012136 K3.9 2 hours 20 min.
