Culinary experts around the world believe that julienne is a special way of chopping vegetables for salads, sauces or soups, when the products are carefully cut into thin strips. The masters of Russian cuisine have their own opinions on this matter. They call julienne a dish made from mushrooms baked in cream under a cheese crust. True, the French called this product "cocot". It is usually done in the oven, placing the ingredients in special pots with a handle, called cocotte makers. From here, probably, their unusual name came from. But the Russian cooks went further in this matter and began to make julienne in a pan. Moreover, it tastes absolutely no different from what is cooked in the oven.
Seafood julienne
Recently, seafood has been very popular. Mussels, shrimps and octopuses are increasingly appearing in the daily diet of Russians. They are usually used in kind or as an original addition to already known dishes. For example, you can make a delicious julienne in a pan with mushrooms and seafood. First you need to prepare the necessary ingredients for this:
- 200 grams of fresh champignon, peeled shrimp (without shell) and mussels; 50 milliliters of dry white wine; salt; onion; 35 grams of vegetable oil; Bechamel cream sauce; black pepper and Parmesan cheese.
Julien is preparing in a pan very quickly:
- First, seafood should be put in a pan, pour water and put on fire. Then you need to add wine, bring the contents to a boil and cook after that for three minutes. After that, the processed mussels with shrimps need to be thrown into a colander and allowed to drain completely.
- Cut the onion in half rings and pour into a pan with boiling oil.
- Once it becomes transparent, add mushrooms, cut into thin slices. Together, the products must be fried for 10 minutes.
- Transfer the seafood to the pan and pour the sauce over everything.
- Add a little pepper and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Put the pan in the oven for 5 minutes. Before this, it must be warmed up to at least 180 degrees.
Ready julienne in a pan is tender, aromatic and very tasty.
Culinary classic
Cooking is a special art in which everyone can experiment. But for this, you definitely need to know the original version of this or that dish. The classic julienne recipe is different in that mushrooms and chicken are used as the main ingredients. They are perfect for each other and give a unique combination of tastes. In order to cook such a dish, you will need:
- 350 grams of chicken fillet, onion, 400 grams of mushrooms and the same amount of hard cheese, 30 grams of flour, a pinch of ground black pepper, 150 grams of sour cream, vegetable oil and 10-15 grams of salt.
Julien classic recipe is designed for stewing in cocotte makers. If these portioned pots are not, then you can use a regular frying pan. The process will look like this:
- First you need to wash the meat, and then boil it in slightly salted water. This will take 25 minutes. The cooled product must then be chopped as finely as possible.
- After that, you can chop the onions arbitrarily and cut the mushrooms into thin slices.
- Put the pan on the stove and warm the oil in it well.
- Pour onion and sauté it until soft.
- Put mushrooms and fry products for 5-6 minutes together over medium heat.
- In another pan for 3 minutes, stirring constantly, warm the flour. Add sour cream, pepper, salt and bring the mixture to a boil.
- Add chopped chicken to mushrooms with onions, mix and transfer everything into a special form. If desired, the products can be baked in the same pan.
- Pour the contents of the sauce and warm for 15 minutes over low heat.
- Put the product in the oven and bake it there for another 15 minutes at 190 degrees.
- Sprinkle the mass with grated cheese and leave it in the oven for another 3 minutes.
After that, ready-made julienne to serve.
Mushroom Hot Appetizer
Do not forget that julienne is still a dish of baked mushrooms. Adding different types of meat to it is not necessary at all. Therefore, if desired, you can cook no less tasty julienne with mushrooms in a pan. The following ingredients will be required:
- per 100 grams of fresh mushrooms 10 grams of flour, 2 onions, 50 milliliters of cream, 40-60 grams of butter, salt, 50 grams of cheese and a little ground pepper.
The process technology is a bit like the previous options:
- First, chop the onions finely, and the mushrooms - very finely chop.
- Heat the oil in a pan and fry the prepared foods in it for 7 minutes, adding salt and pepper. At the very end, add the flour and mix well.
- Pour the products with cream, sprinkle with grated cheese on top and put in the oven, heated to 150 degrees. Roasting is best done in portioned dishes. If there is none, then you can use the very pan in which the products were fried. The process ends at the moment when a pronounced golden crust appears on the surface.
Such a dish is always served hot with almost any side dish or without it.
"Happy" Julien
As a component for baking with mushrooms instead of chicken, you can use any poultry meat. But nutritionists are still advised to choose a turkey for this. The main reason is that her meat contains a huge amount of tryptophan, a unique acid that is responsible for the production of endorphin (the hormone of happiness). True, for the cook, such a replacement does not change much.
So how to cook julienne in a pan with turkey? To do this, you need a whole set of specific products:
- 300 grams of fresh mushrooms (champignons), 400 grams of turkey fillet, 250 grams of milk and sour cream, salt, ½ packet butter, 30 grams of flour, ground black pepper and 50 grams of cheese (necessarily hard).
Now you can get to work:
- First you need to make the sauce. To do this, first of all, the flour should be fried until the color changes in a heated dry frying pan. Then it needs to be cooled, and then, adding butter, salt and milk, bring to a boil. Introduce sour cream into the hot mass. After this, you need to boil the mixture again. Ready sauce can be set aside for a while.
- Sort the mushrooms, rinse and cut into thin plates.
- The turkey washed and dried with a napkin should be carefully cut into strips.
- Grind cheese on a coarse grater.
- Heat oil in a pan and fry pieces of meat for several minutes.
- Add mushrooms, spices and continue heating until food is cooked.
- Pour the ingredients in the sauce, sprinkle with cheese and send the pan to the oven for half an hour.
After this, the dish should immediately be taken out of the closet and carried to the table.