| Tips |
To successfully make whipped cream, the liquid cream should be very cold. To cool the cream, you can immerse it in a cold bain-marieTo make your whipped cream even lighter and improve its resistance, slowly fold whipped egg whites into the cream.
To protect fruits’ flavour while being washed, keep their stem to prevent the fruit from soaking up water, which dilutes the flavour.
To keep food juicy and tasty while cooking on a barbecue, use tongs or a spatula to place it on the grill. If you prick it with a fork, it will lose its natural juice and dry out.
To keep scallops flavour while they are defrosting, thaw them in a mixture of water and milk.
Steam cooking removes salt. Thus one has to remember to salt after cooking.
To cook successfully, one should remember to take meat out of the refrigerator far enough in advance so it is at ambient room temperature.
If you use wooden brochettes, soak them in water the night before to prevent them from blackening during cooking.
To prevent fois gras escalopes from melting in the plate, remember to dip them in flour before cooking.
An easy idea for a simple sauce to dip vegetables into at aperitif time: plain yoghurt, a teaspoon of strong mustard, a teaspoon of ketchup, a teaspoon of mayonnaise, a pinch of pepper, a teaspoon of Darégal’s Fines Herbes mix or Darégal’s Chives and you have a spicy sauce to accompany your cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, cucumbers, small onions, etc.
To make it easier to release your cakes from the mould without adding fat, line your mould with aluminium or greaseproof paper.
A great tip to make an incredibly delicious mint tea: make an infusion with Darégal frozen mint. The aromas are increased tenfold!.
To enhance boiled potatoes, I mix crème fraîche or fromage blanc with a teaspoon of Darégal Chives, which I serve as an accompaniment: a guaranteed hit!.
To make nice mango cubes for a fruit salad, all you have to do – once the mango has been cut in half and stoned – is trace horizontal and vertical lines with a knife and then fold back the skin in order to cut the cubes close to the skin..