Taught by Michel Roux

Classic French Cuisine: The Roux Way Part 3

£45
Level: Peer






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Level: Peer

Course overview

Master classic French culinary techniques and recipes from the leading London restaurant Le Gavroche, created and run by the Roux family for thirty years.

In this course Michel Roux, star of MasterChef and owner of the two-Michelin star Le Gavroche in London, will help you bring provincial French cooking into your kitchen. Taking lessons from his best-selling book ‘Pastry’, Roux will dispel the myth that pastry is intimidating.

Have spent two years as a pastry chef at the age of 16, Michel is passionate about pastry – getting it perfect is one of the most important lessons you can learn as a chef.

Practise your technique in the classroom and get feedback on your technique before you challenge your newfound skills with quiches, tartes, éclairs, choux buns and more.

Also on the menu is a vegetable flan, salmon mousse, fish stew, steamed Norwegian Cod with a white wine sauce, and Roux’s fool proof method for fish stock. Fish stock is one of the quickest, freshest, most fragrant stocks out there, and it is of course very resourceful, sustainable and satisfying to get use out of every part of the animal you’re eating.

This course is designed to help you bring the art of classical French cooking into your own kitchen and gain an exclusive insight into Michel Roux chef’s secrets gleaned from years of experience training top chefs.

You will learn from Roux’s demonstration, and practise your own technique in the online classroom, gaining personal feedback from the master chef on your dishes.

This course is suitable for cooks of all levels, and will give you the tools to re-create the world-renowned cuisine of Le Gavroche in your own home.

You'll learn:

  • how to cook pastry at a professional standard
  • using pastry to make quiches, flans and tartes
  • making French fish mousse and cooking with a whole fish
  • choux pastry for choux buns, eclairs and croquembouche

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 pastry and 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 Michel Roux 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 French cooking 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 French pastry dishes, so you'll need standard kitchen equipment.

Lesson summary

Quiches/Tartes
For many home cooks, pastry can be intimidating. Roux will dispel that myth in this lesson, demonstrating how easy it is to prepare professional-calibre pastry at home, providing step-by-step techniques and kitchen tips to ensure perfect results. You will cook: Quiche Lorraine Prune Flan Tarte Lesson length: 30 minutes Assignment: Master the classic Quiche Lorraine by following my steps identically. For the fruit flan try experimenting with different dried fruits
Mousse/Flan
Classical French cooking is famous for its use of luxurious ingredients and indulgent flavours – and a creamy mousse is a great way to bring all these flavours together in a way which isn’t too overpowering. Once you’ve learned the technique, you can get creative with your fish/vegetable flavours. You will cook: Vegetable Flan/Flan de Carottes Fish Mousse Lesson length: 30 minutes Assignment: These dishes leave scope for you to be adventurous. Create both dishes and put your own twist on them.
Stocks and Fish
Cooking whole fish is one of Roux’s passions – you can lock in huge amounts of flavours, it’s great for your health, and once you know how, it’s really easy to do. You will cook: Fish Stock Steamed Norwegian Cod/White Wine Sauce Panfried Fish Fish Stew Lesson length: 44 minutes Assignment: Make all of these dishes. First master the classic techniques, and then bring a little bit of your own style and invention to the dish.
Choux Pastry
Choux pastry is so versatile and a great base recipe to nail down. It’s tricky to get it right, but once perfected you can be very creative. You will cook: Eclairs Choux Bun (Savoury) Croquembouche Lesson length: 37 minutes Assignment: Get your choux pastry recipe perfected. Then practice with éclairs & savoury choux buns and play around with the filling and toppings. Finally, I want to see your finished Croquembouche.

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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Why choose Learning with Experts?

Start whenever it suits you, and immerse yourself in motivational lesson tutorials with expert guidance.
Enhance your learning and personal growth with lesson assignments. Each course includes an optional assignment at the end of every lesson.
Drop a friendly message or respond to your assignment feedback. Our world-class experts are just a click away, ready to help you!
Stay informed about your own progress and those of your peers, and take joy in celebrating achievements along the way.
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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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