Beautiful Bouquet - All For The Fragrant Herbal Mixture

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

In case you come across a cookbook from older times, you will probably be impressed that it often does not mention specific spices in the description of soups and stews, but uses the term roots for soup.

You probably already know what this is about, but for strangers we will specify that in the past the soup roots were sold in the form of a link containing carrots, celery and parsnips. In fact, you can still find this fragrant combination, known as mirpoa, in stores today. Giving a truly superb taste to almost all our traditional soups, stews and all kinds of dishes.

Come to think of it, however, a similar connection can similarly be made by other spices. But why call it a connection, outright bouquet of herbs.

That is why here we will introduce you to the French equivalent of our roots for soups, which is called Beautiful bouquet.

Such a bouquet of spices has been talked about in France since the 17th century, when several herbs were tied in the form of a bouquet, they were added at the beginning of cooking, and at the end, when they had already released their magical aromas, they were removed.

It is supposed to the classic Garni bouquet is a work of the French chef Jules Goff, dating from the 19th century. It consisted of stringed bay leaf, parsley and thyme, which were left to cook with the soup or dish for about 10-15 minutes and then removed.

This time is enough for the spices to "release" their aromas, and their removal from the dish was necessary in order for its consumers not to have difficulty chewing the herbs.

Much later, Julia Child, a prominent French culinary researcher, published in her book details about the history and use of garni bouquets in the kitchen. She divides them into a large Garni bouquet and a small Garni bouquet, the small one already mentioned by us classic Garni bouquetcontaining only thyme, bay leaf and parsley.

And as for the big Garni bouquet, it can, in addition to the classic ingredients, contain any other spices according to the wishes of the particular chef.

To large beautiful bouquets you can easily add celery, leek or green onion leaves, rosemary, oregano, etc.

Depending on whether meat or vegetable dishes are prepared, Garni bouquet can be made from a variety of herbs, and for fish dishes it can include lemon peel.

It is important that all the ingredients are really shaped like a bouquet, which is usually tied to a stalk of parsley or celery and which is removed from the dish at the end of cooking.

Since you have already come to the conclusion that it is not so difficult to follow in the footsteps of French chefs and be yourself prepare a beautiful bouquet, we will tell you that it is much easier to just prepare a gauze bag, which you can tie like a barrel, and fill it with your favorite spices.