Despite new trends, hype and marketing, tradition has never been stronger. In France, good food still means authentic cooking by using natural products from diverse regions. This is how we celebrate human being by offering the best food to all our senses. Cooking home-made food and eating at the table make your appetite grow stronger. The challenge is to combine ingredients together to get the best taste out of them. anyone from anywhere can explore the world of cooking. To start with, let’s find out what people 

Here are the top 10 most popular recipes in France:

Roast 🐔Chickens 

not a notorious recipe but cooked everywhere around the world from Asia and Africa to America. is the most popular dish. Roast chicken is not stuffed inside. The secret is to baste the poultry several times during roasting with butter and and to add an onion in the roasting pan. Roast chicken is traditionally served with potatoes and green beans.

Boeuf bourguignon

The most famous beef stew in Boeuf bourguignon is a traditional recipe from Burgundy. A recipe that french people use to cook at least once every winter. The beef meat is cooked in a red wine sauce, obviously a red wine from Burgundy. Bacon, onions, mushrooms and carrots add flavor to the recipe. But thyme, garlic and beef stock are essential to cook a good boeuf bourguignon.

Mussels mariniere

A typical summer very popular along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coast. Mussels are fresh and cooked in a white wine sauce with parsley, thyme, bay leaf and onion. It takes only 5 minutes to cook a tasteful mussels  The secret is to season carefully the meal and to discard any mussels that don’t look good enough.

Sole meuniere

Although sole is an expensive fish, the taste is so elegant that it is considered as the noblest fish. Sole is a recipe from Normandy. The fish is cooked in a butter sauce with a  bit of flour and lemon juice. Sole is traditionally served with rice or green vegetables.

Potaufeu 

A typical family meal coming once again from Normandy. Pot  is a boiled beef with pork, chicken and vegetables. It takes about 4 hours half to as the beef has to simmer slowly to extract all its flavor. Pot is also called in France.

Sauerkraut

Quite similar to the  sauerkraut, the sauerkraut called comes from Alsace.the french recipe can be traced back to 6 centuries ago ! Sauerkraut is a fermented cabbage. sauerkraut includes sausages, pork knuckle and bacon. Two essential ingredients are alsatian white wine and juniper berries.

Veal 🍲stew 

Called de  in France, this is another stew recipe from Normandy. The veal meat simmers in white sauce – as from bstands for white in – with mushrooms and onions. The white sauce is made of egg yolks, whipping cream and lemon juice. Veal stew is usually served with rice.

Lamb navarin

Another but this one is made of lamb meat. It is also called spring lamb as it comes with green vegetables available in spring. comes from which stands for turnips in Other ingredients are tomatoes, lamb stock and carrots. This stew takes less time to simmer than any other.

Cassoulet

A strange recipe that people often confuse with their traditional breakfast! A traditional meal from of France. Each village has its own  it always includes beans and meats. Cassoulet is a rich combination of white beans and depending on the village lamb, pork, mutton or sausage meat. is the cornerstone of the french paradox study describing why people from of suffer less than others from infarcts.

Bouillabaisse is closely linked with the city of Marseille on the Mediterranean coast. The recipe is a fish soup from local fish and seafood products including crabs, scorpion fish, monk fish and others. Provencal herbs and olive oil are essential. For a long time, the recipe was a secret jealously kept by the people from Marseille