Classic French Cuisine: The Roux Way Part 1

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Course overview

This classic French cookery course is taught by Michel Roux, from his kitchen at the globally influential Le Gavroche restaurant.

Two-Michelin starred Chef Patron Michel Roux has been at the helm of Le Gavroche since 1991. He now invites you to join him in his kitchen to learn how to prepare classic French dishes in your own home. You'll be following in the footsteps of over more than thirty Michelin starred chefs who have trained at Le Gavroche, including Gordon Ramsay, Marco Pierre White and Monica Galetti.

The master chef will begin by showing you how to prepare an omelette Roux style – one of the first tasks he sets chefs who want to work with him.

You can tell a lot from an omelette, the preparation, the seasoning…the care.

He will then show you how to prepare an Omelette soufflé. This recipe and technique has never before been shared outside Le Gavroche's kitchen.

Then you'll learn how to cook the brasserie staple, ‘Steak Frites’, along with iconic French sauces, dressed salads, and classic French potato side dishes.

Throughout the course Michel Roux Jr shares his own chef’s secrets, demonstrating techniques learnt through years of experience training the world’s top chefs. You'll get a unique insight into Michel Roux Jr's world and techniques, and learn about his cooking philosophy and the influence of his culinary hero, Georges Auguste Escoffier.

This course is the first course of Classic French Cuisine: The Roux Way. The three courses together take you from beginner to expert French cuisine skills.

You'll learn:

  • how to make the perfect omelette and omelette souffle
  • French cooking techniques
  • how to make classic sauces including red wine, truffle sauce and madeira
  • dressing the perfect salad
  • three classic French potato dishes - dauphinoise, potato boulangere and potato rosti
  • how to cook steak frites

Time to complete the French cooking course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 30 minutes to complete including:

  • Video lesson: 2 hours 30 minutes in total
  • Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
  • Assignment: at least 2 hours per lesson
  • Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson

You'll need:

The ingredients for each recipe are in the class notes. You'll be cooking along with chef Michel so you'll need standard kitchen equipment.

This course is suitable for cooks and chefs at all levels - from home cooks who want to get started in the kitchen to professional chefs who want to learn French cooking skills from chef Michel Roux.

The course includes:

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

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Lesson summary

The Roux Philosophy
In your first lesson you’ll be welcomed to this intimate course, introduced to the curriculum and given full access to the kitchen of the legendary Le Gavroche.  Michel will give you an insight into his history, career and culinary philosophy and talk about the important role education plays in becoming a top chef - as well as explaining his excitement about interacting with all the students on this course and the journey he will take you on. The master chef will reveal one of the first challenges he sets chefs who want to work with him - preparing a basic omelette. He will demonstrate how you can prepare an omelette Roux style and then how to prepare the truly Michelin starred omelette – an Omelette soufflé. By the end of this lesson and assignment you will be immersed in the Roux philosophy, ready to develop the skills and values taught in the following lessons. Lesson length: 26 minutes Assignment: Create your own omelette soufflé
Stocks & Sauces
In this lesson you will be given a solid understanding of basic stocks, how to use these to make some iconic sauces and how to bring this knowledge together to make the perfect steak with a pan-cooked sauce. Taking you through the stock preparation step by step, Roux will give you an understanding of just how fundamental stocks are to French cuisine - but also how versatile they are. You will then be shown how to make three very different classic sauces: red wine sauce, truffle and madeira sauce and finally pepper sauce. Finally, you will bring all your new knowledge and skills together to pan fry a steak with a sauce, just they do in Le Gavroche. Lesson length: 58 minutes Assignment: Create one/all of the sauces demonstrated in the lesson
Pairing, preparing and dressing your salad
One of Roux’s concerns is that many people (including many practising chefs!) do not know how to pick, prepare and dress salad. In this lesson, you will be shown how to make a mind-blowing dressed salad, but perhaps more important - shown how to make high quality, delicious and nutritious salads a part of your daily culinary routine. Roux starts with the basics - a walk through the different types of salad and their tastes, textures, seasonality – and how they can be combined. You will then be shown a variety of delicious dressings and how they should be paired. These will include a classic French dressing, a citrus dressing and a walnut dressing. Lesson length: 27 minutes Assignment: Using local/seasonal produce, create a salad using the techniques demonstrated in the lesson
Iconic potato dishes
In this lesson, Michel will show you three classic potato dishes, talking you through their heritage before showing you how they can be prepared as delicious sides - or meals in their own right. The first recipe is one which has been passed down through generations and is one of Roux’s personal favourites.  He will show you the secret to a truly great Gratin Dauphinoise, demonstrating techniques and preparation skills that you can embellish.  Next, you will be introduced to a Pomme Boulangère and finally shown how to create a Pomme Anna. By the end of this lesson you will have mastered a form of alchemy - turning a humble potato into something truly sublime. Lesson length: 42 minutes Assignment: Prepare your final potato dish. Choose either Roux dauphinoise. potato boulangère or potato rost and present the dish alongside your steak and salad.

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  • 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 levels?

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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