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Recipes: 36 results
"Psychedelic" sandwich bread
(Found inTexts)This amazing-looking loaf uses a basic sandwich bread recipe, but half the dough is coloured yellow with turmeric, the other half black with squid ink. The two colours are then rolled up together to give the spiral effect you can see in the photo. The outside is coated with sesame seeds. This surprising bread is full of flavour and, with its "psychedelic" look, it makes spectacular sandwiches and canapés.
February 6th 201988 K 4 hours 15 min.
Stuffed prunes
(Found inStages)Stuffed prunes are a sweetmeat made with halved dried prunes sandwiched together around a morsel of marzipan flavoured with Armagnac.
July 18th 201853 K 20 min.
Brioche feuilletée (flaky brioche)
(Found inStages)For brioche feuilletée (or flaky brioche), the brioche dough is treated like puff pastry, with layers of butter incorporated by repeated turning and rolling. Coarse sugar crystals add a sweet crunchiness. Needless to say, this is very rich and quite irresistible.
November 10th 2013141 K 24.6 3 hours 50 min.
Flamiche
(Found inStages)Flamiche is a savoury tart from the Picardy region of northeasten France. It is a cousin of quiche lorraine, but the pastry is characteristically made with lard and the filling has neither bacon nor eggs. This version contains a mixture of endives and leeks (white part only).
April 30th 201762 K 14.5 1 hour 20 min.
Buckwheat almond biscuits
(Found inStages)In this sweet biscuit recipe, some of the normal wheat flour is replaced with buckwheat flour and ground almonds. This gives them a very distinctive flavour.
October 7th 2015103 K4 2 hours 40 min.
Turban of sole with langoustines
(Found inStages)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 23th 2014116 K4.1 1 hour 45 min.
Pistachio shortbread biscuits
(Found inStages)These melt-in-the-mouth biscuits are "double pistachio", as they contain both pistachio paste and toasted chopped pistachios.
April 19th 2012172 K 54.6 2 hours 60 min.
Kouign-amann
(Found inStages)Kouign-amann is a traditional cake from Brittany. the name means butter cake in Breton (Kouign = cake, amann = butter). It is a sort of caramelized millefeuille, crunchy on the outside and melting in the middle.
May 24th 2018156 K4.3 6 hours 40 min.
Galette de Fougerolles
(Found inStages)This Galette de Fougerolles is a flattish cake filled with a hazelnut buttercream and topped just before baking with a "craquelin" (sweet cracker) crust, studded with griottine cherries.
February 17th 201962 K 3 hours 25 min.
Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants)
(Found inStages)This yeast-based flaky dough (or croissant dough) is where puff pastry meets a yeast dough (such as brioche dough). This means that not only will we get flaky layers, but the dough will also swell and rise. The method is along the same lines as for a feuilletage: the basic dough is first kneaded, then layered with butter and folded over several times (in...
June 9th 2019182 K 4 3 hours 60 min.
Pecan fruit rolls
(Found inStages)These pecan nut and dried fruit rolls, wrapped in golden caramelized puff pastry, are really delicious.
September 11th 2018124 K4.9 1 hour 25 min.
Valay-Brest
(Found inStages)A Valay-Brest is a mini eclair, filled with apple-flavoured confectioner's custard and topped with a rectangle of walnut nougatine.
May 14th 201488 K4.1 1 hour 30 min.
How to make ravioli
(Found inStages)In theory, making ravioli is fairly simple: just roll out wide bands of thin fresh pasta dough and encase small pieces of pre-prepared filling between two sheets of pasta. In practice, it's a bit trickier than that and having the right equipment is important. This recipe shows you how to make beautiful ravioli step by step.
May 30th 2016101 K5 1 hour 20 min.
Kouign-amann brioche
(Found inStages)This is unusual brioche is halfway to being a Breton Kouign-amann. The difference is in the treatment of the dough, which is layered with sugar and butter. The basic dough is rolled out with butter in stages, like for croissants, but with 2 "turns" of sugar for one of butter (granulated and December 30th 201980 K4.3 15 hours 55 min.
Craquelin (sweet cracker dough)
(Found inStages)This sweet cracker dough ("craquelin" in French) is a very simple mixture: equal parts of flour, butter and light brown sugar. It is simlilar to a shortbread dough and can be rolled out very thinly and cut into any shape as desired. Craquelin is mostly used (though not exclusively) on top of choux pastry (pâte à choux) to give a more attractive and regular result, with eclairs, for example, and gives them a delicious crisp...
February 10th 2019129 K5 55 min.
Autumn apple and plum crumble pie
(Found inStages)This crumble with a difference captures real autumn flavours: apples, plums and hazelnuts. For a change, the crumble topping is pressed into a thin crust, more like a pie.
October 27th 201963 K 1 hour 40 min.
