Country
What France cooks with
77 ingredients from the guide appear in the 42 catalogued dishes of France, in Europe. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
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Most typical of France
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Every ingredient in France’s dishes

Aioli
1 dish here

Anchovy
1 dish here

Arugula
1 dish here

Bacon
1 dish here

Basil
2 dishes here

Batter
1 dish here

Beef
2 dishes here

Bell pepper
3 dishes here

Black pepper
1 dish here

Bread
2 dishes here

Broad bean
1 dish here

Butter
1 dish here

Buttercream
1 dish here

Celery
1 dish here

Chervil
1 dish here

Chicken
2 dishes here

Corn salad
1 dish here

Cream
2 dishes here

Crème fraîche
1 dish here

Crouton
1 dish here

Custard
1 dish here

Dark chocolate
1 dish here

Dough
1 dish here

Egg
3 dishes here

Endive
1 dish here

Époisses
1 dish here

European anchovy
1 dish here

Fish
2 dishes here

Garlic
5 dishes here

Globe artichoke
2 dishes here

Goat cheese
2 dishes here

Haddock
1 dish here

Ham
2 dishes here

Hazelnut
1 dish here

Lettuce
1 dish here

Milk
2 dishes here

Morel
1 dish here

Mussel
2 dishes here

Olive
2 dishes here

Olive oil
4 dishes here

Onion
3 dishes here

Parmesan
1 dish here

Parsley
2 dishes here

Pastry cream
1 dish here

Pickled cucumber
1 dish here

Pork
2 dishes here

Potato
5 dishes here

Powdered sugar
1 dish here

Puff pastry
2 dishes here

Purslane
1 dish here

Rabbit meat
1 dish here

Radicchio
1 dish here

Radish
2 dishes here

Red wine
1 dish here

Rice
2 dishes here

Salmon
1 dish here

Sausage
1 dish here

Scallion
1 dish here

Shallot
1 dish here

Sorrel
1 dish here

Spinach
1 dish here

Stock
1 dish here

Sugar
1 dish here

Table salt
1 dish here

Tomato
1 dish here

Tomato sauce
1 dish here

Tortilla
1 dish here

Tuna
2 dishes here

Vacherin Mont-d'Or
1 dish here

Veal
1 dish here

Vegetable oil
1 dish here

Vinaigrette
1 dish here

Welsh onion
1 dish here

Wheat flour
1 dish here

White bread
1 dish here

White wine
4 dishes here

Wine
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (77)
Goat cheese: M0tty · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Radish: Hans Braxmeier · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Mussel: DaBler · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
White wine: Shixart1985 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Globe artichoke: Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bell pepper: Ssilvestori at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tuna: George Alexander Ishida Newman from Japan · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Puff pastry: Moonsun1981 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ham: Renee Comet (Photographer) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Basil: Paul Goyette · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive: Juan Emilio Prades Bel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Cream: Miia Ranta from Finland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Aioli: Juan Emilio Prades Bel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Anchovy: jules / stone soup · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Arugula: Jeffery Martin · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bacon: Lara604 from Seattle, WA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Batter: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Beef: F ASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bread: Bake Across Europe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Butter: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Buttercream: [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Celery: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chervil: Derzsi Elekes Andor · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chicken: Sakurai Midori · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crème fraîche: Peter from Liverpool, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Crouton: Bi-frie ( talk ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Custard: Interiot · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Dark chocolate: Simon A. Eugster · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Egg: Flixtey · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Endive: David Monniaux · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Époisses: Coyau · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
European anchovy: Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Fish: Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Hazelnut: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lettuce: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Olive oil: Jacek Halicki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Parmesan: Mario M. Lommersum · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Parsley: Bi-frie ( talk ) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pastry cream: SKopp · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pickled cucumber: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pork: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Powdered sugar: Ɱ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Purslane: Robert Flogaus-Faust · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rabbit meat: Peachyeung316 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Radicchio: CostaPPPR · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Red wine: Photos Public Domain · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Salmon: Salwa Farwaneh Dameh · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sausage: gcardinal from Norway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Scallion: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Shallot: HaJunkiyada · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Spinach: Scudsvlad · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Stock: Gloria Cabada-Leman · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tomato sauce: Dennis Klein klein2 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tortilla: Erik Cleves Kristensen · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vacherin Mont-d'Or: Guy Waterval · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Veal: Jeff Kubina · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Vegetable oil: Netojinn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Welsh onion: Miyuki Meinaka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
White bread: Evan Swigart from Chicago, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wine: A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons