Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Poultry (Volaille) - Various Preparations of Fowl

Updated July 31, 2026

Escoffier's fowl beyond the roast: giblets and cocks' kidneys, chicken forcemeat turned to quenelles and mousselines, fricassées, pilaffs, pies and soufflés, all scaled to one cook, one stove, one evening.

Culinary Explorer

A cooking platform built around craft, culture, and the stories behind what we eat.

Discover Culinary Explorer
Chicken Croquettes and Cutlets - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Chicken Croquettes and Cutlets

Cold paste is the whole discipline: chicken, mushroom, tongue, and truffle bound in reduced Allemande, shaped two ways, sealed in fine crumbs, and fried until crisp outside and creamy within.

Fritôt ou Marinade de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Fritôt ou Marinade de Volaille

Fritôt turns modest cooked chicken into a proper hot first course: lemon and herbs within, a fine golden shell outside, and tomato sauce waiting beside it for dipping.

Brochettes de Foies de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Brochettes de Foies de Volaille

Chicken livers meet fierce butter twice: first to stiffen, then under the grill with blanched bacon, browned mushrooms, and fine bread raspings, until the crust is bronze and the centers stay juicy.

Mousselines de Volaille à la Florentine - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Volaille à la Florentine

Mousselines de Volaille à la Florentine sets silken chicken over butter-stewed, thoroughly dried spinach in crisp pastry boats, then gives each one a glossy cream glaze.

Sylphides de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Sylphides de Volaille

Sylphides de Volaille pair poached chicken mousselines with Mornay, tender collops, and piped Soufflé au Parmesan, baked in crisp barquettes until the crowns rise and bronze, then carried straight to the table.

Rognons de Coq Farcis pour Entrées Froides, Garnitures, etc. - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Rognons de Coq Farcis pour Entrées Froides, Garnitures, etc.

Foie gras butter fills these delicate cock’s-kidney halves before white chaud-froid and clear gelée seal them into gleaming cold bites, trimmed underneath so every one sits steady when the dish reaches the table.

Giblet Pie - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Giblet Pie

Pâté d’abatis turns modest poultry giblets into a generous supper: browned in butter, bound with a light consommé sauce, cooled completely, then sealed beneath puff pastry that rises crisp and gilded.

Chicken Pie - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Chicken Pie

A deep chicken pie built in the classical order: veal beneath, fowl and bacon within, puff pastry above, then strong gravy poured through the gilded crust.

Boudins de Volaille Soubise - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Boudins de Volaille Soubise

Boudins de Volaille Soubise hide a cold truffled onion purée inside delicate chicken forcemeat, then take an egg-and-crumb coat and clarified-butter browning, with silky Soubise passed at the table.

Soufflés de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Soufflés de Volaille

Soufflés de Volaille rise by disciplined heat, not mystery: cooked chicken folded through a butter-bound base and whisked whites, then baked steadily until the bronze cap stands proud and the centre is fully set.

Soufflé de Volaille with Raw Meat - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Soufflé de Volaille with Raw Meat

Soufflé de Volaille teaches the delicate rule of mousseline work: fold stiff whites into cold raw chicken forcemeat without beating, then bake at once for four tender, ivory timbales.

Mousselines de Volaille Alexandra - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Volaille Alexandra

Four silken chicken mousselines, each under a fine slice of fowl, black truffle, and glossy Mornay, glazed in a breath and gathered around buttered asparagus: the grand canon made workable at home.

Quenelles de Volaille Morland - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Quenelles de Volaille Morland

Cold chicken mousseline, shaped into generous ovals, coated with egg and minced black truffle, then poached beneath a lid in clarified butter and served around a deep mushroom purée.

Boudins de Volaille à la Richelieu - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Boudins de Volaille à la Richelieu

Boudins de Volaille à la Richelieu turn a cold chicken mousseline around truffled salpicon, then poach, crumb, and bronze it in clarified butter, with glossy Périgueux sauce served separately.

Mousses et Mousselines de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousses et Mousselines de Volaille

One cold forcemeat, two forms: a generous chicken mousse for the table or tender spoon-shaped mousselines for each guest, poached gently until set and still delicate.

Soufflé de Volaille with Cooked Meat - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Soufflé de Volaille with Cooked Meat

Cooked chicken becomes a feather-light savoury soufflé through fine pounding, a true tamis, gentle warming, and six stiff whites, with glossy Suprême sauce waiting beside the risen dish.

Mousselines de Volaille à la Patti - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Volaille à la Patti

Silken chicken mousselines, gently poached and veiled with crayfish-butter sauce suprême, circle buttered asparagus and glossy black truffle in a celebration dish scaled faithfully for four.

Soufflé de Volaille à la Périgord - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Soufflé de Volaille à la Périgord

A savory chicken soufflé built on velouté, lifted with egg whites, and layered twice with black truffle, so every spoonful carries tender poultry and the dark perfume of Périgord.

Fricassée de Poulet à l’Ancienne - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Fricassée de Poulet à l’Ancienne

Chicken gently stiffened in butter, never browned, then cooked in its own ivory sauce and finished with pearl onions, mushrooms, cream, yolks, tender herbs, and pale puff-pastry fleurons.

Fricassée de Poulet aux Écrevisses - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Fricassée de Poulet aux Écrevisses

A white chicken fricassée dressed for celebration with tender mushrooms, crayfish tails, and shell-pounded crayfish butter, mounted off the boil so the ivory sauce takes on a coral gloss without losing its silk.

Mousselines de Volaille à l’Indienne - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Volaille à l’Indienne

Four silken chicken mousselines, gently poached and ringed beneath Sauce Indienne, teach the discipline of a cold forcemeat and quiet water, with a separate timbale of buttered rice.

Capilotade de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Capilotade de Volaille

Yesterday's roast becomes Capilotade de Volaille: thin, tender slices of poultry and mushrooms held in glossy Sauce Italienne, warmed with such restraint that the pan never gives you a single bubble.

Crêtes et Rognons de Coq - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Crêtes et Rognons de Coq

An exact lesson in blanchiment: cocks’ combs and rognons soaked clean, rubbed free of their skins, and gently poached in blanc until ivory, supple, and ready for the special-occasion table.

Mousselines de Volaille au Paprika - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Volaille au Paprika

Silken Mousselines de Volaille meet a paprika-red suprême sauce, tender breast collops, and buttery tomato pilaff timbales, a composed French main whose real discipline is temperature.

Ballotines et Jambonneaux - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Ballotines et Jambonneaux

Four boned chicken legs become compact ballotines, packed with good sausage meat, sewn into their own skin, browned deeply, and braised until the filling stays juicy and the pan sauce gleams.

Abatis aux Navets - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Abatis aux Navets

Glazed turnips, pearl onions, and tender poultry giblets settle into a pale, glossy sauce, with crisp-edged salt pork lending depth: a thrifty braise whose whole success rests on cooking the flour first.

Mousselines de Volaille à la Sicilienne - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Mousselines de Volaille à la Sicilienne

Cold is the architecture of these silken chicken mousselines, set over tomato-dressed macaroni in crisp oval tartlets, cloaked with sauce suprême, and flashed beneath fierce heat until Parmesan turns pale gold.

Desirs de Mascotte - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Desirs de Mascotte

Désirs de Mascotte puts the whole finish in your wrist: tender cocks' kidneys, black truffle, and crisp croûtons bound in reduced demi-glace with cold butter, rolled off the heat until every surface gleams.

Foies de Volaille et Rognons Sautés au Vin Rouge - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Foies de Volaille et Rognons Sautés au Vin Rouge

Foies de Volaille et Rognons Sautés au Vin Rouge teaches the essential sauté: color the offal quickly, reduce the wine almost dry, then finish the meat glaze with cold butter away from the flame.

Quenelles de Volaille d’Uzès - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Quenelles de Volaille d’Uzès

Silken moulded chicken quenelles hide an Allemande-bound centre, then meet a glossy tomato-tinted Aurore and black truffle julienne, a formal composition made workable for four at home.

Pilaw de Volaille à la Grecque - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Pilaw de Volaille à la Grecque

Chicken browned with onion, bound lightly with flour and consommé, then simmered with capsicum, currants, and sultanas. The separate pilaw stays loose, ready to catch every spoonful of glossy sauce.

Crêtes et Rognons de Coq à la Grecque - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Crêtes et Rognons de Coq à la Grecque

Crêtes et Rognons de Coq à la Grecque makes timing the technique: saffron pilaff, tender poultry offal, and crisp aubergine must meet in one warm pan and reach the table without waiting.

Pilaw de Volaille à la Parisienne - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Pilaw de Volaille à la Parisienne

Chicken and rice share one buttered pan, taking on tomato, bay, white broth, and the browned fond before a final forkful of veal stock leaves every grain separate and deeply savory.

Pilaw de Volaille à l’Orientale - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Pilaw de Volaille à l’Orientale

Butter-browned chicken, a ginger-scented pan sauce, and three tender green capsicums meet a neat timbale of pilaff rice, proving that careful browning and gentle braising need no brigade.

Pilaw de Volaille - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Pilaw de Volaille

Pilaw de Volaille keeps its two promises apart: chicken simmered in a mild curry sauce, rice cooked nacré in butter and stock, then the two brought together only on the plate.

Pilaw de Volaille à la Turque - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Pilaw de Volaille à la Turque

Chicken warmed in butter, saffron and cayenne folded through tomatéd pilaff, then molded and turned out beneath a fine ring of tomato sauce: classical thrift made handsome for the home table.

Where cooking meets culture.

Culinary guides, cultural storytelling, and the editorial depth that makes cooking meaningful.

Discover Culinary Explorer