Gordon Ramsay's French Inspired Recipes

vegetable broth

🥗Healthier: homemade vegetable stock

💰Cheaper: water + bouillon cubes

Homemade stock enhances flavor without additives.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Canola oil is often less expensive and has a neutral flavor.

Start by preparing the dressing for the salad nicoise.

Add 1 spoon of Dijon mustard into a pestle and mortar.

Add anchovies and capers to the mortar and grind to a paste.

Add garlic and season with black pepper (no salt needed due to anchovies).

Pour in 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar and olive oil, then add flat leaf parsley and mix to create a thick dressing.

For the salad, boil potatoes, green beans, and eggs together for 7.5 to 8 minutes until eggs have a creamy yolk.

Once eggs are cooked, transfer them to cold water to stop cooking and make peeling easier.

Season warm potatoes and beans with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and let them cool.

Toast a baguette on a lightly oiled griddle pan.

Slice pear into finger-width pieces and season goat cheese (no extra salt needed).

Crumble walnuts and place them under the grill to toast.

Assemble the salad starting with dressing on the plate, then layer baby gem lettuce, salad potatoes, green beans, canned tuna, baby plum tomatoes, and peeled eggs with a dark yolk.

Add black olives and drizzle with dressing.

For the tartine, serve the grilled walnuts with the goat cheese and pear.

Start the chicken fricassee by seasoning chicken with salt and pepper on both sides.

Heat a pan and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, then brown the chicken skin-side down.

Cut chestnut mushrooms in half and sprinkle pancetta over the chicken in the pan.

Add garlic and mushrooms, then sprinkle rosemary and thyme over the top.

Flambé with brandy, tilting the pan gently to ignite.

Add chicken stock and simmer for around 10 minutes.

Slice soda potatoes into finger-width pieces and parboil for 5 to 6 minutes.

In a hot pan, add 1 tablespoon of goose fat and sauté the potatoes until golden, then add shallots, garlic, rosemary, and thyme.

For dessert, prepare lavender sugar by adding dried lavender to caster sugar.

Melt plain caster sugar until dark golden and pour into ramekins, sprinkling with lavender flowers.

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