Top 20 French recipes

Cheesy juicy stuffed chicken breasts filled with bacon, ricotta and swiss cheese, pan fried until golden and served with a lemony white wine sauce.

A lighter (less butter) version of Hollandaise sauce with foolproof directions. This lemony creamy sauce is perfect for serving with any kind of fish.

Crab stuffed chicken breast that is out of this world with a French style white wine cream sauce. This single skillet chicken breast dinner with sauce makes for easy cleanup and is guaranteed to wow your family.

Beef tips marinated in red wine. Pancetta (or bacon), garlic and onion. Simple flavors highlighted by earthy mushrooms, simmered long and slow.

Juicy tender pork medallions served with classic French steak Diane sauce for pork tenderloin. This quick and easy pork tenderloin recipe is ready in about 15 minutes flat.

Egg yolk and butter sauce flavored with lemon juice. This is THE classic sauce with slight modifications to reduce the amount of fat. It is made with warmed egg yolks flavored with a bit of lemon juice with butter incorporated. It it probably the most famous of all the classic French sauces. Addendum: This recipe is a combination from several French cookbooks including Julia Child & Larousse Gastronomique but uses a bit less butter.

I love Creme Brulee but with the high fat have been working on a no-guilt low fat version of this French delight. It had to be creamy with the subtle flavors I remember from when I was in Cannes France. Last weekend my father came to visit and here it is, low-fat no guilt Creme Brulee using Canadian maple syrup and a Madagascar vanilla bean. Guaranteed to knock the socks of any guest and you can feel the guilty feeling they have once they taste it. Then they're so relived when you tell them the ingredients. Truly no guilt.

Boneless beef short ribs, slow braised in a small crockpot (or pot if desired) perfectly sized for two servings.

Create the traditional french onion soup in your crockpot with this easy to follow recipe.

Butter fluffy and light as a feather. Hundreds (700+ actually) layers of butter and flour create this classic and very useful French pastry

This dish comes from Cahors, a town in the southwest of France known for its dark, rough red wine. The sauce is equally good with salmon.

Warm crepes with juicy and fruity strawberry sauce drizzled on top. A delicious and satisfying breakfast that is easy to get you out of the bed.

Salted caramel is filled in between the vanilla macaron shells, it's impossible to resist these sweets. Experience some seriously decadent and delicious explosion by popping one or two these vanilla salted caramel macarons into your mouth.

An quick and easy to make enriched Bechamel sauce that is excellent on fish or other broiled meats.

This recipe is based on the one from Jean Christoph Novelli's grandmother Louise's recipe. He call's it "The Most Amazing Tomato Sauce on the planet" I agree. This is not the exact recipe (I tweaked it very slightly and made some educated guesses on the amounts of various ingredients but based upon the taste I believe it is probably very close.

These vanilla custard macarons are loaded with vanilla flavor, the custard filling is made with milk, egg yolk and vanilla beans. If you love vanilla, you will for sure love these vanilla custard macarons.

A favorite of ours which goes well with any type of fish, particularly flaky white fish.

This is an easy and delicious dish to serve to guests that is easily scale-able. Pair it with a tossed salad and some garlic bread and it makes a quick, easy and elegant meal.

A very chocolatey raspberry easy chocolate mousse recipe. A simple dark chocolate mousse that uses just 3 ingredients and is unbelievably smooth, rich and decadent.

Enjoy the decadence of this rich classic lightened up. This simple and easy French onion soup lets you enjoy without the guilt. Use any leftover bread you might have, it's extra filling using some toasty whole-wheat grain filled bread and it gives a nutritional boost.