It may take time, of course, depending on the dish you choose to make, and you may need an oven for many recipes (which isn’t something so current in Japan, right?) but, that’s it.
Most of the ingredients can be found everywhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before entering the subject, I noticed that, speaking with my Japanese friends, most of them don’t have any idea of what is french food.
I think that is totally normal considering they only know the expensive fancy food serve in the luxurious french restaurants in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is french food<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
That might disappoint you but, what we eat there isn’t something we eat normally in France. Actually we are huge pasta lovers, many of us cook pasta at home almost daily. If it’s not pasta, it is simply vegetables or rice, or any cereals, with some meat or fish aside. You could actually cook french food just like you cook some Japanese dishes, changing simply the condiments<\/strong>, which are the fundamental trickers making a difference in the flavour. Everything lies in the seasoning.<\/strong> Obviously, there are some vegetables and fruits you can only find in France, like artichoke, but they don’t represent the base of french dishes. Let’s see what I consider as classic french food and that you can easily make at home:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m going to share with you 2 recipes, you’ll notice that ingredients are all easily accessible. Let’s impress your friends with delicious and super easy to make french food!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is one the most easy and quick recipes you can do, moreover it’s cheap too! What you need :<\/p>\n\n\n\n – 1 tart crust<\/strong> And, that’s it !! The preparation is the simplest thing in the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.<\/strong> Melt butter in a pan at over medium high heat. Add onion and bacon. Cook until bacon is light golden. Et voil\u00e0 !<\/p>\n\n\n\n This quiche is still excellent when you reheat it, so it’s something you can also prepare in advance and make for any occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is one of my all favorite too, and I love to prepare it especially when we go picnic! You can eat it heated or cold, and eat it with your hands so it’s perfect to eat outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What you need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n – 250 g cake flour So out of the base, we use here ham, gruyere and olives, but you could replace it with tomatoes, feta, zucchini, salmon… You can invent and try many ingredients that would seem good together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The preparation in 5 steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.<\/strong> In a large bowl, sift together the flour with baking powder, salt, and pepper. What do you think? Does it seem difficult to make?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me know your opinion in the comment section, and if you tried to make it I would be glad to know how it went!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m gonna tell you something that may be surprising : It’s not complicated or even expensive to cook french food in Japan. It may take time, of course, depending on the dish you choose to make, and you may need an oven for many recipes (which isn’t something so current in Japan, right?) but, that’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxtales.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Those fancy gourmet dishes such as escargots, foie gras, mousse<\/em>… are, even for french people, some delicacies we eat on unique moments such as celebrations or events such as New year, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we do like to start our meal with a salad or soup as entree.
When we have time we like to bake tartes, quiches, mijot\u00e9s<\/em>, or cook more elaborated meals but I reckon that’s not a daily habit for most of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEasy to cook?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
For example if you plan to cook salmon with rice, just season your salmon with some Aneth, salt, or make a sauce hollandaise<\/em>, or a sauce oseille<\/em> to accompany it. And there you have a classic french food you can find in any bistrot in France!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I guess the most difficult thing to find in Japan is french cheese, since we have a very, very wide variety of cheese.
So you might want to avoid choosing a recipe containing very hard to get ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSome examples of french meals easy to make in Japan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Please just note that you need an oven for both of the recipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nQuiche lorraine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Whatever how you do it, unless you spit the salt jug in your plate, I’m sure you can’t fail it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
you can buy it in store or make it yourself, but if you never made tarts or pizzas let’s just buy it.
– 4 eggs
– 300ml of <\/span>heavy cream (thickened cream)
– 150gr of <\/span>grated gruyere cheese (or cheddar, parmiggiano, mozarella..)
<\/span><\/strong>We generally make it with gruyere but whatever you find should be good. Parmiggiano is more salty and will give a more cheesy taste to it, and the contrary for Mozzarella which will make it very soft!)
– 200 gr of bacon, cut in small strips
– 1\/2 onion, finely chopped
– Butter or oil
– Salt, pepper<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many variations, you can also add garlic or other spices, but I’m sharing with you my lazy easy recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2.<\/strong> Mix the eggs, cream, cheese, onion and bacon together in a bowl.
3.<\/strong> Pour it in your tart
4.<\/strong> Sprinkle some cheese below the surface.
5.<\/strong> Bake in the oven for about 30-40min until the top is golden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCake sal\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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so many variations exist, I’m gonna share with you the most traditional one.
This is also a very simple recipe with only a few ingredients!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>baking powder incorporated; if not just add a spoon of baking powder
– 4 eggs<\/strong>
– 80 ml of milk<\/strong>
You can use any milk such as soy milk if you want
– 80 ml of olive oil
– 50 gr of olives<\/strong>
black or green, up to your choice
– 170 gr of ham,<\/strong> cut into little dices (about 0,5cm)
– 170 gr of grated gruyere cheese<\/strong>
– Salt, pepper
– thym <\/strong>(optionnal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2.<\/strong> In a medium bowl, lightly whisk the eggs, then mix in the milk and olive oil
3.<\/strong> Add the liquid in the large bowl. Then add in the ham, cheese, and olives, and softly mix all together.
4.<\/strong> Scrape the batter into the loaf pan and flatten the top. Sprinkle some thym on the top.
5.<\/strong> Bake for 40-50 minutes, until golden.
Check if it’s well cooked by picking it with a knife: it must comes out clean, just a few scrubs on it, no humid batter on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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