المطبخ الفرنسي أناقة التقديم وطيب الطعم

Translation: Samar Yahya

French cuisine is one of the most known cuisines worldwide and recognized by its rich and delicious variety of dishes. The famous French breakfast usually has bread with butter or jam, croissants, with hot drinks or fruit juice

Lunch is served middle of the day and usually runs for two hours or longer with the family on Sundays. French salads of all kinds, are served along with the main dishes of meat or fish with vegetables

While dinner has entrees, a main course, dessert and juice, the most famous French desserts mainly include chocolate

Chocolate Brioche

Ingredients:

500 gm flour
Salt
4 tbsp icing sugar
1 tbsp yeast
140 ml warm milk
250 gm soft butter
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
100 gm dark chocolate chips

Method:

In the kitchen machine mix flour, salt, sugar and yeast
Add milk, eggs and mix at low speed for 8 minutes

 Add butter and continue till you have soft smooth dough
Cover the dough and keep in fridge for at least 8 hours or till double in size
Knead the dough on a surface sprinkled with flour and add chocolate chips

Place dough in the loaf mould as a whole loaf or divided into balls, cover and leave it to prove again
. Bake at 170 ° C for 35-54 minutes or until well baked

French Nicoise Salad

Ingredients:

.One can of tuna
.Two boiled eggs cut into quarters
.2 medium peeled potatoes, boiled and cut into cubes
.200 gm of boiled green cowpea
.2 tomatoes cut into quarters
.12 slices of anchovy
.20 black olives
.Marination: 3 tbsp olive oil, 3 tbsp vinegar, 2 tbsp mustard, salt and pepper

:How to prepare

.Mix all marinating ingredients together and leave aside
.In the salad bowl, add cowpea, then potatoes, on top add tuna, distribute the quarters of eggs and tomatoes on the edges of the bowl, garnish with anchovies and black olives. Pour the marinating sauce on the salad and serve