What are the Most Popular French Recipes

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. However, anyone from anywhere can explore the world of French cooking. To start with, let’s find out what French people enjoy eating. Here are the top 10 most popular recipes in France: Roast Chicken Indeed roast chicken is not a notorious French recipe but cooked everywhere around the world from Asia and Africa to America. However, it is the most popular French dish. Roast chicken is not stuffed inside. The secret is to baste the poultry several times during roasting with butter and cooking oil 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 France. 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 mariners, A typical summer recipe 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 mariniers. The secret is to season carefully the meal and to discard any mussels that don’t look good enough. Sole meunière Although sole is an expensive fish, the taste is so elegant that it is considered as the noblest fish. Sole meunière is a recipe from Normandy. The fish is cooked in a butter sauce with a little bit of flour and lemon juice. Sole is traditionally served with rice or green vegetables. Pot au feu A typical family meal coming once again from Normandy. Pot au feu is a boiled beef with pork, chicken and vegetables. It takes about 4 hours an a half to cook as the beef has to simmer slowly to extract all its flavor. Pot au feu is also called Po tee Normandy in France. Sauerkraut Quite similar to the German sauerkraut, the French sauerkraut called choucroute comes from Alsace. However the French recipe can be traced back to 6 centuries ago ! Sauerkraut is a fermented cabbage. Commonly sauerkraut includes sausages, pork knuckle and bacon. Two essential ingredients are alsatian white wine and juniper berries. Veal stew Called banquet te de veau in France, this is another stew recipe from Normandy. The veal meat simmers in white sauce – as banquet te from Blanc stands for white in french – with mushrooms and onions. The white sauce is made of egg yolks, whipping cream and lemon juice. Veal stew is usually served with rice.