- Source: Bouquet garni
The bouquet garni (French for "garnished bouquet"; pronounced [bukɛ ɡaʁni]) is a bundle of herbs usually tied with string and mainly used to prepare soup, stock, casseroles and various stews. The bouquet is cooked with the other ingredients and removed prior to consumption. Liquid remaining in the bouquet garni can be wrung out into the dish.
There is no standard recipe for bouquet garni, but most French recipes include thyme, bay leaf and parsley. It may also include basil, burnet, chervil, rosemary, peppercorns, savory and tarragon. Vegetables such as carrot, celery (leaves or leaf stalks), celeriac, leek, onion and parsley root are sometimes included in the bouquet.
Sometimes, the bouquet is not bound with string, and its ingredients are filled into a small sachet, a piece of celery stalk, a net, or a tea strainer instead. Traditionally, the aromatics are bound within leek leaves, though a cheesecloth, muslin or coffee filter tied with butcher twine can be used.
Use in dishes
Dishes made with a bouquet garni include:
Boeuf bourguignon
Blanquette de veau
Bouillabaisse
Brown Windsor soup
Carbonnade flamande
Cassoulet
Coq au vin
Court-bouillon
French onion soup
Lapin chasseur (huntsman's rabbit)
Ossobuco
Pot-au-feu
Poule au pot
Tripes à la mode de Caen
References
= Bibliography
=The New Larousse Gastronomique, Crown Publishers, Inc., NY, NY ISBN 0-517-53137-2, p. 141
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
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- Bouillabaisse
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