Culinary experts all over the world believe that Julien isa special way of chopping vegetables for making salads, sauces or soups, when foods are neatly cut into thin strips. The masters of Russian cuisine have their own opinion on this. They call Julien a dish made from mushrooms baked in cream under a cheese crust. True, the French, this product is called "kokot." It is usually made in the oven, placing the ingredients in special pots with a handle, called kokotnitsami. From here, probably, came their unusual name. But the Russian cooks went further in this matter and began to make julien in a frying pan. And to taste it is not at all different from what is cooked in the oven.
Julien with seafood
Recently, seafood has enjoyed tremendouspopular. Mussels, shrimp and octopus are increasingly appearing in the daily diet of Russians. They are usually used in natural form or as an original addition to already known dishes. For example, you can make a very tasty julienne in a pan with mushrooms and seafood. First you need to prepare the necessary ingredients for this:
- 200 grams of fresh champignons, peeledshrimp (without shell) and mussels; 50 milliliters of dry white wine; salt; onion; 35 grams of vegetable oil; cream sauce "Bechamel"; black pepper and Parmesan cheese.
Julienne cooks in a pan very quickly:
- First you have to put the seafood in the pan,pour water and put on fire. Then you need to add wine, bring the contents to a boil and cook for three minutes after that. After that, the processed mussels with shrimps should be thrown back into a colander and allowed to drain completely.
- Onion cut into half rings and pour into the pan with boiling oil.
- As soon as it becomes transparent, add the mushrooms, cut into thin slices. Together the products need to fry for 10 minutes.
- Transfer the seafood to the frying pan and pour over all the sauce.
- Add a little pepper and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Put the pan in the oven for 5 minutes. Before this, it must be heated to at least 180 degrees.
Ready-made julienne in a frying pan turns out to be tender, fragrant and very tasty.
Culinary classics
Cooking is a special art in whicheveryone can experiment. But for this you need to know the original version of a dish. The classic Julien recipe is different in that mushrooms and chicken are used as main ingredients. They perfectly match each other and give a unique blend of flavors. In order to prepare such a dish, you will need:
- 350 grams of chicken fillet, onion, 400 grams of champignons 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.
The classic Julien recipe is designed for quenching in cocottes. If these portions of the pots are not, then you can use a conventional frying pan. The process will be as follows:
- First you need to wash the meat, and then boil it in lightly salted water. This will take 25 minutes. The cooled product then needs to be cut into small pieces.
- After that, you can arbitrarily chop the onion and cut the mushrooms into thin slices.
- Place the frying pan on the stove and heat the oil well in it.
- Cover the onion and sauté it until soft.
- Put the mushrooms and fry the food for 5-6 minutes over medium heat.
- In the other pan for 3 minutes, stirring constantly, stir the flour. Add sour cream, pepper, salt and bring the mixture to a boil.
- Add chopped chicken to the mushrooms with onions, mix and put everything in a special form. If desired, the products can be baked in the same pan.
- Content pour sauce and heat 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 to serve Julien.
Mushroom Hot Appetizer
Do not forget that Julien is stilldish of baked mushrooms. Adding different types of meat in it is not necessary. Therefore, if desired, you can cook no less tasty julienne with mushrooms in a pan. The following ingredients are 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 some ground pepper.
The process technology is a bit like the previous options:
- First of all, onion should be finely chopped, and mushrooms - chop very finely.
- Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry the prepared food in it for 7 minutes, adding salt and pepper. At the very end you need to add flour and mix well.
- Products pour cream, sprinkle with grated topcheese and put in the oven, preheated to 150 degrees. Baking is best done in portion dishes. If there is none, then you can use the very frying pan in which the products were fried. The process ends at the moment when a pronounced ruddy crust appears on the surface.
Such a dish is necessarily served hot with almost any side dish or without it.
"Happy" Julien
As a component for roasting with mushroomsinstead of chicken, you can use the meat of any bird. But nutritionists still advised to choose for this particular turkey. The main reason is that its meat contains a huge amount of tryptophan, a unique acid that is responsible for the production of endorphin (the hormone of happiness). True, for a cook, such a change makes little difference.
So how to cook a julienne in a pan with a turkey? To do this, you need a whole range of specific products:
- 300 grams of fresh mushrooms (champignons), 400 gramsturkey fillet, 250 grams of milk and sour cream, salt, ½ packs of butter, 30 grams of flour, ground black pepper and 50 grams of cheese (surely solid).
Now you can get to work:
- First you need to cook the sauce.To do this, the first thing to do is to fry the flour until the color changes in the preheated dry pan. Then it needs to be cooled, and then, adding butter, salt and milk, bring to a boil. In the hot mass to enter sour cream. After that, boil the mixture again. Ready sauce can be set aside for a while.
- Mushrooms to sort, wash and cut into thin plates.
- Washed and dried turkey should be carefully cut into strips.
- Grind cheese on a coarse grater.
- Heat the butter in a pan and fry the meat pieces for a few minutes.
- Add mushrooms, spices and continue heating until cooked.
- Pour the ingredients in the sauce, sprinkle with cheese and send the pan to the oven for half an hour.
After that, the dish should be immediately removed from the cabinet and carried to the table.
