Question: What are the top ten mostly used ingredients in French cooking. I know they say the three main ingredients to French cooking are butter, butter, and butter. But what are the
others?
Answer: Hi Sarah - Thanks for sumbitting your question!
Coming up with any single list of French ingredients would be
impossible, but I will give you my list and maybe someone else will submit their ideas.
Was it Julia Child who said that about the French and butter? Anyway, it is true that many French recipes include generous amounts of butter, so it would probably top most lists of ingredients. But
since you have already mentioned it, I'll skip to some other popular and distinctive ingredients.
shallots
leeks
onions
crème fraîche
eggs
wine
olive oil
vinegar
bouillon
mustard
Here's a much longer list that I started a while back:
The key to French cooking however is not the particular ingredients. Rather it is the time, care and consideration that will go into selecting the food, whatever it may be. Very high quality ingredients are the cornerstone of French cuisine.
im french coock and maybe in your list you forgot Garlic Thyme
Laurel
May 13, 2010 Rating
butter by: Sylvie in
Rappahannock
I don't quite agree that butter is a top ingredient in French cooking. It surely depends on the area of France. Top ingredient in Norman cooking? yes! in Provencal or Reunion cooking?
absolutely not!
Fully agree about leeks, shallots, onions, wine and the use of many fresh herbs.
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by: matthieu
im french coock and maybe in your list you forgot
Garlic
Thyme
Laurel
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by: Sylvie in Rappahannock
I don't quite agree that butter is a top ingredient in French cooking. It surely depends on the area of France. Top ingredient in Norman cooking? yes! in Provencal or Reunion cooking? absolutely not!
Fully agree about leeks, shallots, onions, wine and the use of many fresh herbs.
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