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Main dishes anchor the meal. This category gathers poultry, seafood, meat, pasta, grains, and plant-forward recipes with clear methods and satisfying structure.

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Poularde à la Grammont

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Grammont

Poached poularde, carved and rebuilt with quail, mushrooms, cocks' combs, and truffle, then cloaked in Allemande and bronzed fast: classical construction made workable for one careful cook.

Poularde Grand Hôtel

Chef Juliette

Poularde Grand Hôtel

Poularde Grand Hôtel puts butter-browned chicken and thick raw truffle in a sealed cocotte, where eight fierce minutes turn white wine, stock, and the bird's juices into fragrant gloss.

Poularde au Gros Sel

Chef Juliette

Poularde au Gros Sel

Poularde au Gros Sel makes restraint visible: a tender whole bird, ten carrots, ten onions, clear cooking liquor, and coarse salt at the table, all decided by a poach that must never boil.

Poularde à la Grecque

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Grecque

Poularde à la Grecque teaches concentration without disguise: a rice-stuffed bird poëled in butter, then coated with its own deeply reduced chicken stock, lightly bound with arrowroot and nothing else.

Poularde à la Hongroise

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Hongroise

A butter-poêled pullet, glossy with paprika-and-onion sauce Hongroise, arrives ringed by tomato pilaf timbales. The lesson is simple and absolute: wake paprika gently in butter, because scorched paprika turns bitter at once.

Poularde aux Huîtres

Chef Juliette

Poularde aux Huîtres

One pale, generous dish teaches the discipline of sauce suprême: poach the poularde without boiling, concentrate the oyster liquor, then warm two dozen oysters without tightening them.

Poularde à l’Indienne

Chef Juliette

Poularde à l’Indienne

A whole chicken gently poached, coated in glossy curry velouté, and brought to the table with a rice timbale: proof that curry powder needs butter and patience before it needs sauce.

Poularde Isabelle de France

Chef Juliette

Poularde Isabelle de France

A stuffed poularde that teaches gentle poaching and sauce-making in one pot: truffle, crayfish, Chablis, and sauce suprême brought generously to the home table without losing the canon’s grandeur.

Poularde à l’Ivoire

Chef Juliette

Poularde à l’Ivoire

A tender poularde presented without camouflage, with glossy sauce ivoire, clear poaching liquor, and cream-bound cèpe noodles alongside: a quiet lesson in temperature, restraint, and pale sauce work.

Poularde Lady Curzon

Chef Juliette

Poularde Lady Curzon

Poularde Lady Curzon turns one careful poach into two rewards: tender rice-stuffed poultry and concentrated liquor for a glossy sauce Indienne, with cèpes gently bound in cream.

Poularde Louise d’Orléans

Chef Juliette

Poularde Louise d’Orléans

A truffle-studded whole foie gras fills a butter-browned poularde, then black truffle, bacon, and a vented pastry case hold every rich perfume through the long, gentle bake.

Poularde à la Louisiane

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Louisiane

Poularde à la Louisiane pairs a savoury, butter-poêled bird with creamed maize, sweet capsicum, neat rice timbales, fried bananas, and crisp croustades, a grand garnish made workable for one home table.

Poularde à la Lucullus

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Lucullus

Poularde à la Lucullus teaches orchestration: tender braised bird, Champagne-scented black truffles, trembling Mousselines, and a truffled demi-glace brought together hot, glossy, and generous on one oval platter.

Poularde à la Mancini

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Mancini

A whole poached pullet, opened and refilled with macaroni bound in cream and cheese, foie gras, and truffle, then reconstructed and flashed beneath fierce heat until its glaze blisters.

Poularde Marguerite de Savoie

Chef Juliette

Poularde Marguerite de Savoie

A quail-filled poularde braised in equal measures of Savoy wine and veal stock, served on fried bread with Parmesan-glazed polenta and a little dish of warm white Piedmont truffles.

Poularde à la Ménagère

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Ménagère

A plump bird poached gently in white stock, with carrots, new potatoes, and onions cooked uncovered in that same liquor until it gleams: one pot, one honest lesson in reduction.

Poularde Mireille

Chef Juliette

Poularde Mireille

A butter-poêled poularde brought to the table in its southern classical dress: saffron rice timbales, buttery tomato tartlets, black olives, and a glossy tomato sauce served apart.

Poularde à la Montbazon

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Montbazon

A truffle-studded poularde under ivory Sauce Suprême, encircled by poached lamb sweetbreads, chicken Mousselines, and grooved mushrooms: grand cuisine made coherent for one calm cook at home.

Poularde à la Monte Carlo

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Monte Carlo

Pale poached poularde under satin Sauce Suprême, rose-pink chicken mousselines to one side, butter-glossed black truffles to the other: a formal whole-bird dish whose discipline lies in keeping every color exact.

Poularde à la Montmorency

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Montmorency

Poularde à la Montmorency brings the grand garnish home: truffle beneath burnished skin, Madeira in the braise, fine poultry quenelles, and butter-bound asparagus tucked into artichoke bottoms.

Poularde à la Nantua

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Nantua

Poularde à la Nantua teaches the last discipline of sauce work: poach gently, reduce the suprême until it coats, then mount the crayfish butter off the heat and serve at once.

Poularde à l'Orientale

Chef Juliette

Poularde à l'Orientale

Poached poularde rebuilt over whole saffron pilaf, its sliced suprêmes layered with butter-glazed chayote and covered in tomato-saffron Béchamel, a grand presentation made manageable for one attentive cook.

Poularde aux Œufs d’Or

Chef Juliette

Poularde aux Œufs d’Or

Poularde kept pale beneath butter, its aromatic liquor sharpened with lemon and ringed by crisp truffled egg croquettes. The lesson is restraint: protect the bird’s tenderness, then let the sauce gleam.

Poularde à la Parisienne

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Parisienne

Poularde gently poached, cloaked in yolk-finished Sauce Allemande, and dressed with black truffle, cured tongue, and alternating chicken quenelles: Parisian grand cooking brought intact to a generous home table.

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