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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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Mousse de Jambon au Blanc de Poulet

Chef Juliette

Mousse de Jambon au Blanc de Poulet

A pale, gleaming composition of savory ham mousse, white-poached chicken suprêmes, chaud-froid, and clear aspic, built in patient layers so every chilled slice stands clean and generous.

Mousselines Froides de Jambon

Chef Juliette

Mousselines Froides de Jambon

A satin ham mousse set over clear aspic in little cassolettes, its paper collar holding each portion proudly above the rim: cold, generous, and made ahead for the table.

Pullets and Capons for Relevés

Chef Juliette

Pullets and Capons for Relevés

Three roads through the Paris poultry canon, poach, poêler, or braise, with one rule beneath them all: protect the breast with bacon while the legs cook, then turn the liquor into sauce.

The Way to Serve Poultry Relevés Quickly and Hot

Chef Juliette

The Way to Serve Poultry Relevés Quickly and Hot

The service method that protects a grand poultry dish: carve the suprêmes in the kitchen, keep them in their liquor, rebuild the bird with pilaf, and send every guest a hot, complete plate.

Poularde Albufera

Chef Juliette

Poularde Albufera

The marshal’s poularde teaches gentle poaching: a rice-stuffed bird held at a bare tremble, then cloaked in sauce Albuféra and surrounded by truffle tartlets, tiny quenelles, mushrooms, and salted tongue.

Poularde Alexandra

Chef Juliette

Poularde Alexandra

Poularde Alexandra turns one poached bird into a small ceremony: truffle and tongue in the sliced suprêmes, feather-light mousseline beneath a bronzed Mornay coat, and buttered asparagus tartlets all around.

Poularde Ambassadrice

Chef Juliette

Poularde Ambassadrice

A truffle-studded poularde, gently braised in Matignon, rebuilt over buttered asparagus, and coated with sauce suprême that clings in an ivory veil, with glazed lamb sweetbreads ringing the platter.

Poularde Andalouse

Chef Juliette

Poularde Andalouse

Poularde Andalouse teaches the border between poêling and braising: keep the bird unmoistened in butter, then marry its liquor with tomato demi-glace and flank it with rice-filled peppers and golden eggplant.

Poularde à l’Anglaise

Chef Juliette

Poularde à l’Anglaise

An ivory-cloaked poularde, gently poached and ringed with salted tongue, carrot and turnip balls, peas, and celery: a lesson in drawing deep chicken flavor without allowing one careless boil.

Poularde à l’Aurore

Chef Juliette

Poularde à l’Aurore

A pale, tender poularde beneath glossy Aurore Sauce (No. 60), encircled by soft chicken quenelles and salted tongue: gentle poaching made generous enough for the dinner table.

Poularde à la Beaufort

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Beaufort

Foie gras and sausage inside, truffle through the flesh, and barely enough braising liquor below: Poularde à la Beaufort is the celebration bird that teaches restraint.

Poularde Bouillie à l’Anglaise

Chef Juliette

Poularde Bouillie à l’Anglaise

Poularde Bouillie à l’Anglaise turns a plump bird, unsmoked bacon, and pot-au-feu vegetables into a pale, tender feast, with parsley sauce and clear liquor served separately, all decided by one barely trembling poach.

Poularde aux Céleris

Chef Juliette

Poularde aux Céleris

Poularde aux Céleris teaches the poêlé: butter-roasted poultry, strong veal stock added only near the finish, and celery made tender enough to drink the clear, carefully degreased cooking liquor.

Poularde aux Champignons à Brun

Chef Juliette

Poularde aux Champignons à Brun

A poularde cooked poêlé until bronze, ringed with twenty mushroom caps, and served with Madeira demi-glace carrying every savour from the pan, then finished off heat with cold butter.

Poularde aux Champignons à Blanc

Chef Juliette

Poularde aux Champignons à Blanc

A whole poularde gently poached, veiled in ivory sauce Allemande, and ringed with twenty lemon-bright mushroom caps: a lesson in drawing out deep flavor while allowing no browning at all.

Poularde Chanoinesse

Chef Juliette

Poularde Chanoinesse

An ivory-coated Poularde Soufflée ringed with crayfish tails and butter-fried croûtons, each carrying suprême and truffle, with coral-tinted Mornay served separately for a grand dish made calmly at home.

Poularde Châtelaine

Chef Juliette

Poularde Châtelaine

A pale, butter-gold poularde ringed with artichoke bottoms holding ivory Soubise and chestnuts glazed in consommé, with glossy poëling liquor beneath to gather everything into one generous platter.

Poularde Chevalière

Chef Juliette

Poularde Chevalière

The butchery lesson of the canon: breasts threaded with truffle and tongue, legs filled with cream godiveau, every remaining bone turned into stock for a glossy suprême sauce.

Poularde Chimay

Chef Juliette

Poularde Chimay

Poularde Chimay teaches the discipline of half-cooking: tender butter-poêlé poultry, foie gras and cream-bound noodles within, crisp clarified-butter noodles above, and a glossy poëling sauce served generously.

Poularde Chipolata

Chef Juliette

Poularde Chipolata

Poularde Chipolata gathers a whole bird poêlée in butter with chipolatas, lacquered onions, chestnuts, and bacon, then gives them ten quiet minutes to exchange their flavors.

Poularde à la Chivry

Chef Juliette

Poularde à la Chivry

Poached poularde under a glossy herb-green Chivry sauce, with a separate butter-bound macédoine: a composed lesson in gentle heat, clean stock, and knowing when the sauce must leave the fire.

Poularde Cussy

Chef Juliette

Poularde Cussy

Poularde Cussy turns one careful braise into a celebration: burnished poultry, whole truffles, artichoke-filled mushroom caps, and buttered cockscombs, all gathered by a short, glossy Madeira sauce.

Poularde en Demi-Deuil

Chef Juliette

Poularde en Demi-Deuil

Raw truffle under pale poultry skin, gentle poaching, and a white sauce suprême: Poularde en demi-deuil teaches that perfume depends on sequence, and luxury needs discipline more than complication.

Poularde Demidoff

Chef Juliette

Poularde Demidoff

Poularde Demidoff makes poêlé clear: a butter-cooked pullet finished over crescent vegetables, then joined by black truffle and a little chicken stock, all brought to the table in its cocotte.

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