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French recipes

Technique-led cooking, from braises to laminated pastry. 286 French recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.

Braises, tarts, gratins, sauces and patisserie. French cooking is technique-led, and the methods explain the reason behind each step: why a custard stays below a boil, why butter goes into a sauce off the heat, why pastry rests cold.

The 286 recipes cover all ten of the site’s categories, among them 112 dinners, 58 desserts, 33 bakes, 29 lunches, 27 appetisers and small plates and 9 breakfasts. Of these, 58 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Chantilly (5 min), French 75 (5 min) and Kir Royale (5 min). For 108, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 130 easy, 116 medium and 40 hard.

As written, 151 are vegetarian, 24 vegan, 103 gluten-free and 61 dairy-free. Another 19 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.