French cuisine often seems unattainable especially for amateur home cookers. French dishes usually conjure an image of an elegant restaurant with exquisite dishes. Luckily, it’s not as difficult as it seems anyone can have a taste of France in their own homes.
Many French dishes hint at long, complicated processes and lots of hard work during the preparation. Everyone seems to forget that there are also simpler recipes, which can be easily prepared at home. The more complicated dishes you can enjoy at a French restaurant in your city! What can you cook for your friends and family?
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Avocado and Romaine Salad
The best and easiest dishes are the most delicious! The same can be said about this salad. It consists of romaine hearts, chopped avocado, tomatoes, dill and parsley seasoning and a bit of balsamic vinegar. It’s a perfect salad to go with your main dish!
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Salade Nicoise
Salade Nicoise is a salad, which comes from the southern France – Nice. Its Mediterranean character makes it a perfect salad for the warm, summer days. The salad is a mix of red potatoes, eggs, green beans, bag of mixed baby greens, lettuce, cucumber, tuna, tomatoes and olives. The salad wouldn’t be complete without a parsley vinaigrette.
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French Lentil Soup
If you’re looking for one of the quickest soup recipes then try French Lentil Soup. It takes just 45 minutes to make! It’s filled with onions, carrots, celery, garlic and tomatoes. To finish it off, just add lentils and apple cider vinegar.
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Onion soup
It’s one of the most popular French soups. It’s based mostly on meat stock or vegetables. The main stars of the dish are caramelized onions. The soup consists of cheese topping and toasts made from thick slices of baguette with butter.
- Quiche Lorraine
French cuisine is known for its rich choice of different kind of quiches. Quiche Lorraine is one of the most popular. Eggs are the key ingredients to create the pie. The rest of the ingredients, which enhance the dish are bacon, cheese and nutmeg.
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Coq au Vin
One of the ideas for a main course is Coq au Vin. It’s a chicken stew with an addition of wine. The dish is quite easy to prepare at home and is rich with herbs. It consists of chicken, pepper, olive oil, mushrooms, carrots, onion, rosemary, chicken broth, red wine, tomato paste and fresh parsley.
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Steak Frites
Steak Frites are common in many brasseries across France. It’s a classic French dish and quite simple to make. You’ll need potatoes, olive-oil, salt, pepper, beef sirloin grilling steak, fresh thyme, mayonnaise, fresh chives, Dijon mustard and lemon juice.
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French Apple Tart
French cuisine is rich in many delicious desserts. One of the simplest to make is the apple tart. It makes a good dessert, though the complete preparation time takes around 1h 30 minutes. The tart tastes great whit apricot glaze. It’s certainly worth the effort!
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Crepes
Everyone loves crepes. They’re the perfect answer for a delicious breakfast. They can be made with pretty much anything. The limit is your own imagination. The obvious choice is seasonal fruit or chocolate!
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Crème brûlée
It’s the most popular French dessert. It literally means “burnt cream”. It requires heavy cream, vanilla bean, vanilla sugar and egg yolks. The fun part is caramelizing the sugar.
Cooking French dishes doesn’t have to be a mission impossible. Some of these can be fast to prepare, while other will take some time. They’re certainly a great way to impress the guests during a dinner! This article was created in cooperation with Salt Flakes restaurant, which is located in Twickenham, London.