Cuisine française: 500 recipes, Hachette

From breakfast to dessert, Cuisine française gathers five hundred recipes in a 384-page hardback volume. Hachette Pratique brings together basic preparations, classic dishes and regional specialities in this French-language book. The blue cover illustrated with vegetables identifies this edition of 18 September 2024.

Start with basic preparations

The book opens with techniques and their associated recipes. Doughs, sauces and condiments are not left out: they form part of the preparations offered before or alongside complete dishes. You can consult the book for one part of a menu, such as béarnaise sauce, as well as for a more elaborate meal.

The sequence then follows several moments of the day: breakfast, pastries, appetisers and starters precede the meat and fish chapters. This structure lets you look directly for a type of recipe without reading the volume in order.

Find familiar dishes and explore the regions

Gougères, onion soup, pâté en croûte, tapenade and fougasse are among the examples announced. Main dishes such as bœuf bourguignon, blanquette de veau and poulet basquaise show the variety of recipes collected. Regional specialities are organised around the north, east, west and south of France.

The inside previews include a tomato tart, meat dishes, a buckwheat crêpe and a soup. Photos accompany the ingredients and preparation instructions. These spreads give a concrete sense of the balance of text and pictures before choosing this edition.

Leave room for something sweet

Financiers, chouquettes, chocolate mousse, macarons, far breton and tarte Tatin complete the selection. Snacks and pastries have their place alongside savoury dishes. The book can help you choose a single preparation for an afternoon or bring several recipes together when composing a menu.

A recipe table and index appear at the end of the book. They offer two further ways to find recipes alongside the contents page. With its 220 × 278 mm format and hardback binding, this title differs from a small book to carry around: it gathers illustrated recipes to consult as needed.

Identify the book

• Hachette Pratique, large-format hardback.
• 500 recipes, 384 pages.
• Published: 18 September 2024.
• ISBN: 9782019328191.