A traditional French bistro dish that’s notably nice in winter is leeks in French dressing sauce. It’s extremely fast and straightforward to make at residence, and there are lots of variations: with mustard French dressing, balsamic French dressing, lemon French dressing, topped with shallots or not, topped with herbs or not, topped with chopped egg or not and so on. and so on. In at this time’s recipe, the leeks are steamed, then topped with mustard French dressing, chopped shallot and chopped parsley.
Poireaux French dressing / Leeks with French dressing sauce
Sounds easy, proper? Nicely, it may be. It took me quarter-hour from begin to end to make the dish proven above, and that included sufficient time to let the leeks calm down so I may take the picture with out the lens steaming up. Nevertheless, some cooks choose to take the why-to-make-it-simple-when-you-can-make-it-more-complicated strategy.
Whereas scouting round on the web, I stumbled upon the recipe of Philippe Etchebest, a French chef most well-known over right here for internet hosting the cooking actuality present Prime Chef. His listing of elements contains — along with leeks — butter(!), olive oil, white wine, beef inventory(!), flour(!), sherry vinegar and old-style mustard with mustard seeds. In case you’re , right here’s his recipe, together with a 10-minute video on how one can do it… his method…
Let me guarantee you that that is completely not conventional. In my opinion, beef inventory and flour haven’t any place in poireaux French dressing. Etchebest says the meat inventory provides taste. I say, if it ain’t broke don’t repair it. The leeks have their very own subtly scrumptious taste which might be drowned out by including the flavour of beef. To not point out the truth that this dish, served the normal method, is a really wholesome and economical dish for winter, the peak of leek season, that can also be vegetarian/vegan — in the event you don’t add pointless elements, like butter.
The normal model of poireaux French dressing is a dish often served as a starter, though it may additionally accompany a foremost dish of your selecting. It’s tastiest if served whereas the leeks are nonetheless a bit heat. On the recipe web page you can see numerous choices for the sauce. My favourite for this dish stays mustard French dressing — in the event you’ve by no means made it earlier than, you possibly can try this how-to video. The recipe additionally provides suggestions for various toppings.
It snowed in Paris this week, and on one snowy night I invited a good friend over to dine in entrance of a cheery fireplace. We had the leeks French dressing proven within the picture, and adopted up with roast hen and mashed potatoes. Who says winter’s all dangerous?
Glad cooking.
