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Haricots Blancs à la Bretonne
Created by Chef Juliette
Haricots Blancs à la Bretonne turn tender white beans into a composed side dish, bound in glossy onion, white wine, and tomato sauce, then brightened with chopped parsley at the table.
Haricots Blancs à la Bretonne (white beans bound with Sauce Bretonne) teaches one precise thing: a sauce should cling to the beans, not bury them. Drain them thoroughly, keep the prescribed proportion, and every haricot arrives at the table whole, creamy within, and lacquered with onion, white wine, and tomato.
The classical entry assumed a saucier with finished Sauce Bretonne beside a pan of cooked beans, ready to combine by weight for each order. At home, that becomes one pound of drained beans, 190 milliliters of prepared sauce, and a wide saucepan. The brigade's separate holding pans are scaffolding and can go; the sauce ratio and gentle folding are the dish itself, so they stay exactly where they belong. One cook, one stove, one evening.
At the finish, the beans should glisten red-gold, with only a spoonful of sauce settling beneath them and parsley giving a clean green edge. Drain the cooked beans completely before they meet the sauce. That is the step that decides the dish.
Ingredients
cooked white haricot beans
Quantity
2⅔ cups (1 lb / 454 g)
thoroughly drained
prepared Sauce Bretonne
Quantity
¾ cup plus 2 teaspoons (190 ml / about 200 g)
flat-leaf parsley
Quantity
2 tablespoons (30 ml / 8 g)
finely chopped
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| cooked white haricot beansthoroughly drained | 2⅔ cups (1 lb / 454 g) |
| prepared Sauce Bretonne | ¾ cup plus 2 teaspoons (190 ml / about 200 g) |
| flat-leaf parsleyfinely chopped | 2 tablespoons (30 ml / 8 g) |
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