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A community portal about French cuisine with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: French cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity. French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant... [more]
A community portal about French cuisine with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: French cuisine is characterized by its extreme diversity. French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking, and is renowned for both its classical and provincial styles. Many of the world's greatest chefs, such as Taillevent, La Varenne, Carême, Escoffier, and Bocuse, are or were masters of French cuisine. Additionally, French cooking techniques have been a major influence on virtually all Western cuisines, and almost all culinary schools use French cuisine as the basis for all other forms of Western cooking.
How to Make Authentic French Food at Home
There is really no cuisine more delectable and delicious than French cuisine, and you can make real authentic French food at home, you just have to learn a few things first. The most important thing to remember is that when you are cooking French food you need to take your time and put serious thought and consideration into every dish that you make. There are a few recipes in particular that you are going to want to learn if you want to know how to make French food at home.
Boeuf en Brochette
No matter where you go in France one thing that you will always find on the menu is brochette. So if you want to learn how to make French food at home, this is definitely one type of food that you are going to want to become knowledgeable on. For Boeuf en Brochette you will need the following ingredients: 3 lbs. beef tenderloin, 4 medium shallots finely minced, 3 cloves garlic minced, 7-inch stalk celery minced, 2 tbsp. chopped parsley and 1 tbsp. fresh chopped rosemary.
You will also need 1 tbsp. fresh thyme leaves, the juice of 1 lemon, 1 tbsp. freshly ground pepper, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. oil, 2 tbsp. unsalted butter, 1 onion minced, 1 cup red wine, 1 tomatoes peeled and chopped, ½ tsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. Dijon mustard, 1 tbsp. lemon juice, and 1 tbsp. chopped parsley.
To begin you need to combine the marinade ingredients in a large glass bowl, and then add the meat into this mix so that all the pieces are coated and let soak for at least an hour, more if you can. Melt the butter in a skillet and add onion, cook, stirring occasionally for about 7 minutes or until it is brown, and then scrape the marinade off the meat and add to the onion.
Now you want to add the wine, tomatoes and sugar and let this cook over medium heat until slightly thickened, which will usually take about 15 minutes. Puree the sauce in a blender until it is smooth, and then let the sauce cool slightly and stir in the mustard, lemon juice, parsley, salt and pepper.
All you need to do from here is divide the beef cubes among 6 12-inch skewers, and cook over very hot heat for about 8 minutes.
There are various other recipes as well that you will want to learn if you are interested in making French food at home, namely quiches and vegetable dishes. Remember that making French food at home may not be easy at first but as long as you take your time and have patience you will get better at it.
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