Taught by Michel Roux

Classic French Cuisine: The Roux Way Part 2

£45
Level: Peer






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Level: Peer

Course overview

Michel Roux teaches you how to cook French cuisine the Roux Way in the second part of his 3 course collection on French cooking.

You'll learn Roux's trade secrets, his contemporary approach to taste and ingredients, and adapting his favourite recipes for home cooks. Taking a simple recipe and giving it a Roux twist, Chef Michel’s spinach, cheese and ham crepe is an elegant and luxurious dish. Once you’ve nailed the technique, Roux will set you the BBC MasterChef: The Professionals challenge – the crepe soufflé.

Next you'll learn the Roux method for creating tasty stocks and soups, and sharing lessons from his bestselling book ‘Sauces’, Roux will demonstrate how and why sauces can transform your cooking.

Finally, you will learn how to cook duck in 3 ways, with step-by-step instructions to maximise its flavour, including a recipe for Michel’s personal favourite, Confit de canard.

Representing the best of French home cooking, this course has been designed so that the home cook can recreate these dishes, while the more accomplished cook can stretch their culinary muscles.

You'll be able to re-create some of Le Gavroche's most loved dishes and learn the secrets of ‘how’ as well as the ‘what’ to master classic French cuisine.

Unlike simply following recipes, where it can be hard to perfect techniques, Michel teaches you through demonstration, and The Roux team will then personally give you feedback on your own work.

You'll learn:

  • how to make a sweet and savoury crepe
  • how to make the classic crepe soufflé
  • French stocks and sauces including Hollandaise sauce
  • how to cook a duck leg in three different ways

The course includes:

  • 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by chef Michel Roux
  • lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
  • flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
  • downloadable lesson notes
  • practical French cooking assignments and recipes
  • access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
  • small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas

Time to complete the French cooking course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 20 minutes to complete including:

  • Video lessons: 2 hours 20 minutes in total
  • Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
  • Your recipe assignments: at least 2 hours per lesson
  • Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson

You'll need:

Your lesson notes will include the full details of the ingredients you'll need, but you will be making cooking with chef Michel, so you'll need standard kitchen equipment.

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Lesson summary

Crepes
Meltingly rich and soft, discover the method behind Michel Roux’s famous luxurious crepes. You will cook: Spinach, cheese & ham crepe Crepe Soufflé Lesson length: 30 minutes Assignment: Create both a sweet and a savoury crepe using the techniques demonstrated in the lesson.
Stocks and Soups
For Michel, soups and stocks are all about subtleties. A good stock is the cornerstone of so many classic dishes, and will bring a new dimension to your cooking. You will cook: Beef broth Consommé French onion soup Lesson length: 42 minutes Assignment: Demonstrate that you have understood the fundamental skills of these two recipes: submit photographs of your stocks and onion soup.
Sauces and Emulsions
A superb sauce can transform even the simplest dish into an impressive creation. They complement and enhance so many foods, adding nuances of flavour and taking dishes to new heights. Michel Roux is recognised as a master at the art of sauce-making, and during this lesson you will learn his techniques and gain access to his own secret recipes, used at Le Gavroche. You will cook: Sauce Hollandaise Sauce Bearnaise Sauce Choron Sauce Maltaise Lesson length: 30 minutes Assignment: Recreate all four of these sauces
Duck Leg 3 Ways
Chefs love cooking duck, it’s so full of flavour and marries perfectly with a whole host of ingredients and flavours, both earthy and rich, and light and zesty. You will cook: Braised Duck Leg Confit Duck Leg Roast Duck Leg Lesson length: 40 minutes Assignment: Cook all three dishes and have some fun with the garnish - try something a bit different (I used mashed potato and braised red cabbage). I would also like to see you try hard with the presentation of each dish.

Get the most from peer knowledge

  • Start course whenever you like
  • Practise what you learn with your peers
  • Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
  • Lessons with videos & notes
  • Course assignments
  • Group chat & direct message classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
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Michel Roux

Chef de cuisine at Le Gavroche, the first UK restaurant to achieve three Michelin stars.

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Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT options?

At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:

  • Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
  • Downloadable lesson notes
  • Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
  • Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom

If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:

  • Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
  • Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
  • Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?

Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.

You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.

This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.
When can I start my course and how long will it take?

You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.

Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.
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