3 dishes people actually cook in France: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from France? 3 traditional France dishes, from Salade niçoise (30 min, the quickest) to Blanquette de veau (120 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Veal poached without browning, then bound in a pale roux sauce finished with cream and egg yolk.
A Savoyard gratin of potatoes, onions and lardons crowned with a whole reblochon cut in half.
A Nice salad of raw vegetables, salted tomatoes, anchovies and olive oil, with nothing cooked but the eggs.
Copper documents three dishes from France: Blanquette de veau, Tartiflette and Salade niçoise. All three are boiled. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 27 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 27 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the France entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Salade niçoise is the quickest at 30 minutes. Blanquette de veau is the longest at 120 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 70 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Tartiflette and Salade niçoise are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.
France is part of Western European.
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