Main courses: The Best Recipes

All Main courses recipes

Here you’ll find all the recipes for delicious main courses, lovingly created for you by the site’s foodies!

In a traditional French meal, the main course takes center stage—it’s hearty and comforting, served after the appetizer and before the cheese and/or dessert!

Whether for everyday cooking or a festive meal, the main course usually consists of meat or fish served with vegetables and starchy sides. In the case of a vegetarian main course, only the latter will be included. The main course is generally the most nourishing and substantial part of the meal.

It should be noted that the concept of a main course is typical of a French menu and must be viewed in context in certain culinary cultures. In a typical Italian meal, the main course is divided into three courses (primo, secondo, contorno). In Asian cultures, the meal typically consists of a selection of dishes served simultaneously.

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Provençal-Style Rabbit

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India

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Chicken Curry with Apples

This apple chicken curry recipe is delicious and very easy to make. It requires very few ingredients that are easy to find at the supermarket (no fresh curry leaves or special spices).In the photo, ...

Provence

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Beef cutlets stuffed with ham

Here is the recipe for a childhood favorite from my time in Provence—a dish our dear mother would patiently prepare for us, and one that had us licking our lips in anticipation as soon as we caught ...

Provence

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Sanguins Mushroom Stew with Sausages

Every time I make this stew with "sanguins" mushrooms and sausages, it brings back delicious childhood memories... In the fall, we’d go out to pick “sanguins,” another name for the milk cap ...

Provence

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Eggplant Gratin with Tomatoes

This tomato-based eggplant gratin is one of the recipes I make most often during the summer! In fact, this dish requires only a few ingredients and is very easy to make, as long as you have an ...

Italy

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Pépé Vizzini's Cannelloni

Here is the recipe for beef and spinach cannelloni that my Italian grandfather used to make for family dinners. Our mouths would water and our eyes would light up when we saw the dish arrive, and ...

Italy

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Milanese-style breaded veal cutlet

Here is a simple recipe for Milanese-style breaded veal cutlets, which my mom used to make for us when I was a child. Milanese-style breaded veal cutlets are a classic Italian dish, famous for their ...

Detox

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Fish in foil packets

Here is my recipe for fish en papillote—delicious and very easy to make. Wrapped in parchment paper, the fish cooks gently in the steam from the vegetables and herbs that accompany it. This keeps it ...

Ile-de-France

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Easy Rabbit Stew

Here is a very simple recipe for rabbit in gibelotte (sometimes incorrectly spelled "lapin en gibelote"). What is rabbit gibelotte? Gibelotte, which comes from the term "gibelet" ...