French Classics: Hachis Parmentier

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Hachis Parmentier (French: Hachis Parmentier) is a traditional French dish. It is the French version of Shepherd's Pie and consists of diced meat (minced meat can be used instead), mashed potatoes and cheese (and when I say cheese I mean Swiss cheese and etc.).

History of Ashe Parmantier

The dish is named after the French pharmacist, nutritionist and inventor Antoine-Augustine Parmantier. He is very interested in the use and inclusion of potatoes in French cuisine, as his colleagues consider vegetables poisonous. It was not created by the inventor himself, but the dish was named after him with the first term "hashish", which in French means "cut", and the second term of the dish is his last name.

Preparation of Ashe Parmantier

Ashe Parmantier is getting ready, first cooking the meat (usually beef is used) with onions, leeks, tomatoes, red wine, herbs and spices. Prepare a thick stew and meat, remove the bone and add the meat back to the dish. The mashed potatoes are prepared separately and applied to the bottom of the baking tray. The cooked meat and stew are layered and covered again with mashed potatoes. Garnish the top layer with cheese and butter and bake until done.

Popular variations of Ashe Parmantier

The main French recipe for Hachis Parmentier remains the same over time. However, modern recipes can change the ingredients to speed up the preparation of the dish. For example, chefs can use minced meat (minced meat), prepared with a mix of herbs and spices and layered in the same way. They can also use chicken or pork instead of beef.

By tradition the shepherd's pie Hachis Parmentier it can also be prepared without any vegetables. However, chefs often prefer to add leeks, carrots, onions and celery to the meat layer to make it nutritious.

Popular chef Dori Greenspan has a very famous and easy version of the recipe in his book French Fridays with Dori, in which he uses cubes of steaks and sausages to make the dish.

There are similar prepared dishes all over the world, which are called differently. For example, the English version of Hachis Parmentier shepherd's pie is a meat pie made from minced meat and vegetables to form a thick meat mixture, which is covered with mashed potatoes and baked.

A similar dish is prepared in Morocco, called potato paste.

In Bulgaria such a dish is called casserole with minced meat. But at the bottom of the pan we put the minced meat first, then mashed potatoes and finally sprinkle with yellow cheese.