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Cutting Techniques

Slicing a mushroom
Slicing a mushroom
For: For sauces or as a side dish
Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty:
Author: Chef Philippe
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Ingredients:
1 chopping board, 1 office knife or a sole filleting knife
Method
Incise diagonally 2 or 3 times, depending on the mushroom's size.
Turn the mushroom by 90 degrees...
...and incise again.
Use rapidly this mushrooms to prevent them from turning black.
See the recipe

Crush, Chop

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Difficulty:

Crushed tomatoes

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Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty:

Cutting a jardinière

For: Particular cutting technique for vegetable jardinière.
Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty:

Cutting a julienne

For: Cooked for soups and stocks. Raw for appetizers.
Time: 25 minutes
Difficulty:

Cutting fish in steaks

For: Poached Hake steacks, Sauce Hollandaise
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty:

Cutting pastas

For: Making of tagliatelli, spaghettis, lasagnas.
Time: 1 hour
Reviews:
 1 rating

Cutting raw a rabbit

For: lapin chasseur
Time: 25 minutes
Reviews:
 1 rating

How to slice a flat fish

For: For one large flat fish
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty:

Mincing a vegetable

For: As an aromatic garnish in many preparations.
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty:

Slicing a mushroom

For: For sauces or as a side dish
Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty:

Slicing veal ribs

For: Cote veau papillote, cote veau normande
Time: 35 minutes
Reviews:
 1 rating

Striping a fruit or a vegetable

For: Orange Duck...
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty:

To cut in "chiffonnade"

For: To improve a presentation for example...
Time: 15 minutes
Reviews:
 2 ratings

To cut raw in "crapaudine"

For: To be grilled.
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty:

To cut raw (poultry) for grilling

For: To be grilled.
Time: 35 minutes
Reviews:
 2 ratings

To de-bone a piece of meat

For: Preliminary preparation before cooking certain pieces of meat.
Time: 35 minutes
Difficulty:

To peel a mushroom for decoration

For: As a garnish and to decorate certain dishes
Time: 25 minutes
Difficulty:

To slice an escalope

For: To be grilled.
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty:

Trimming leeks into a julienne

For: Cooked for soups and stocks. Raw for appetizers.
Time: 25 minutes
Difficulty: