Herbes de Provence or Provençal herbs is a mixture of the herbs traditionally used in the cooking of Provence, France. The mixture was created in the 1970s to simplify the use of these herbs; traditional cooks did not have such…
Thalassery biriyani is a rice dish blended with Chicken and Spices. The recipe has a strong legacy of the Mughlai cuisine. This variant of biryani is an Indian cuisine and has originated from the Malabar region of South India. The…
White sauce is a common name (chiefly in the US and Britain) for the classic Béchamel Sauce, one of the “Mother Sauces” of French Cuisine. In French cooking, Béchamel Sauce is rarely used on its own; it is more often…
Ingredients Base ½ lb (227 g) dry elbow macaroni 3 Tbsp butter 3 Tbsp flour 1 Tbsp powdered mustard 3 cups milk 1 red onion, finely chopped 2 tsp Tabasco pepper sauce 1 bay leaf ½ tsp paprika 1 standard…
Fast and cheap, this soup will warm you on a cold day! Ingredients 3 cans (45 oz / 1.26 kg) garbanzo beans, divided 4½ cups vegetable broth or water (or a combination), divided 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 heaping cups…
Dirty rice is a traditional Cajun dish made from white rice cooked with small pieces of chicken liver or giblets, which give it a dark (“dirty”) color. Ingredients 2 tablespoons chicken fat 1 teaspoon black pepper ½ lb (225 g)…
This dish is an attempt to replicate the flavor of curry chicken dishes that are served at Indian restaurants in California. Ingredients Meat and vegetables 4 tbsp cooking oil 1 cup diced yellow onions 2 tsp minced garlic 1 lb…
Ossobuco, when loosely translated from Italian, means hollowed bone; a reference to the large piece of marrow in the center of the veal shank bone. It’s a Milanese speciality of veal shanks cooked in meat broth and flavored with white…
Ingredients 900 g (2 lb) good beef stewing steak, at room temperature Vegetable oil 1 medium onion, peeled and diced 1 tbsp (15 ml) plain flour 1 tbsp (15 ml) Worcestershire sauce 1 handful fresh thyme, marjoram and chopped parsley 1 tsp…
Kedgeree (or occasionally kitcherie, kitchari or kitchiri) is a dish consisting of flaked fish (usually smoked haddock), boiled rice, eggs and butter. It originated amongst the British colonials in India hence was introduced to the United Kingdom as a popular…
Neapolitan sauce refers to a tomato-based sauce derived from those in Italian cuisine. This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook’s Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters.…
Jambalaya, one of Louisiana’s most famous dishes, is rooted in Spanish and French cuisine and is the New World version of paella. Jambalaya originated in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It was the accidental result of Spaniards attempting to…