🇫🇷French food

French cuisine is known for its sauces, butter and cream, bread, cheese and pastry, prepared with techniques such as braising, roasting and baking. A classic meal follows the order of starter (entrée), main course (plat) and then cheese or dessert.

154dishes

223average kcal per 100 g

44%vegetarian

Lightest dishes

Most filling dishes

Highest in protein

💡Tip

Butter, cream and pastry add a lot of calories to many French dishes — ask about the sauce, and consider grilled or poached options.

All 154 dishes

🥔 Aligot 🍑 Apricot clafoutis 🐟 Baked brandade 🥩 Bavette à l'échalote (flank steak with shallots)🥘 Blanquette de veau 🍷 Boeuf bourguignon 🥘 Boeuf en daube (Provençal beef stew)🥩 Boeuf à la ficelle 🍲 Bouillabaisse 🐟 Bourride 🐟 Brandade de morue 🧁 Canelé 🫘 Cassoulet 🧀 Cheese Soufflé 🥐 Cheese croissant 🍒 Cherry clafoutis 🍗 Chicken Chasseur 🍗 Chicken blanquette 🍗 Chicken chaud-froid 🍗 Chicken escalope 🍫 Chocolate Fondant 🍫 Chocolate Soufflé 🍫 Chocolate macarons 🍫 Chocolate mousse 🍌 Chocolate-hazelnut and banana crêpe 🥬 Choucroute 🥬 Choucroute garnie 🍷 Coq au vin 🐚 Coquilles Saint-Jacques 🥗 Country salad (salade paysanne)🥒 Courgette gratin 🍲 Couscous royal 🥐 Croissant 🍄 Croque forestier 🍳 Croque madame 🥪 Croque monsieur 🍮 Croquembouche 🍮 Crème brûlée 🍮 Crème caramel 🥞 Crêpe 🍊 Crêpes Suzette 🥩 Côte de bœuf 🍲 Daube Provençale 🦆 Duck confit 🥗 Duck confit salad 🦆 Duck confit with lentils 🦆 Duck à l'orange 🥩 Entrecôte 🐌 Escargots 🐌 Escargots à la Bourguignonne 🍮 Far breton 🥩 Filet mignon au poivre 🧁 Financiers 🥧 Flamiche 🍕 Flammkuchen (tarte flambée)🦆 Foie Gras Terrine 🧅 French Onion Soup 🍎 French apple tart 🧅 French onion soup gratinée 🥞 Galette bretonne 🍳 Galette complète 🌭 Galette-saucisse 🍖 Gigot d'Agneau (Roast Leg of Lamb)🧀 Gougères 🥔 Gratin dauphinois 🥬 Green salad (salade verte)🍰 Gâteau Saint-Honoré 🍰 Gâteau au yaourt (yogurt cake)🍰 Gâteau basque 🥔 Hachis Parmentier 🥞 Ham and cheese crêpe 🥞 Ham and cheese crêpes 🥩 Horse steak 🥓 Jambon cru 🥐 Kouign-amann 🥧 Leek Quiche 🥧 Leek flamiche (flamiche aux poireaux)🍋 Lemon meringue tart 🦞 Lobster bisque 🧁 Madeleines 🦆 Magret de Canard 🌭 Merguez sandwich 🍰 Mille-feuille 🍰 Millefeuille with custard 🥐 Mini croissant 🥧 Mirabelle plum tart 🥗 Mixed green salad (salade mêlée)🌰 Mont Blanc 🦪 Moules marinières 🍫 Mousse au chocolat 🍄 Mushroom Velouté (Velouté de Champignons)🍄 Mushroom and cheese galette 🍲 Navarin of Lamb 🥗 Niçoise salad 🧅 Onion Soup Gratinée 🍰 Opera cake 🍞 Pain Perdu (French Toast)🍞 Pain d'Épices 🥪 Pan Bagnat 🧀 Pan-Fried Tomme 🦆 Pan-Seared Foie Gras 🧀 Pan-fried sérac with salad 🍩 Paris-Brest 🍬 Petits fours 🫑 Piperade 🧅 Pissaladière 🧀 Planchette mixte (charcuterie and cheese board)🥖 Pork Rillettes 🥩 Pork chops with mustard cream 🍲 Pot-au-feu 🥕 Potage Crécy 🥣 Potage Parmentier 🍗 Poulet Basquaise 🍗 Poulet Rôti (French Roast Chicken)🍨 Profiteroles 🍖 Pâté de Campagne (Country Pâté)🥧 Pâté en Croûte 🥧 Quiche Lorraine 🐇 Rabbit in Mustard Sauce 🍓 Raspberry macarons 🍆 Ratatouille 🍆 Ratatouille Niçoise (Tian Style)🍖 Roast Rack of Lamb 🥗 Salade Landaise 🥗 Salade Lyonnaise 🥗 Salade Niçoise 🥓 Saucisse sèche 🥞 Socca 🐟 Sole Meunière 🧀 Soufflé au Fromage 🥣 Soupe au Pistou 🐟 Soupe de Poisson 🥩 Steak au poivre 🥩 Steak frites 🥩 Steak tartare 🍓 Strawberry charlotte 🍓 Strawberry tart 🍎 Tarte Tatin 🍰 Tarte Tropézienne 🍕 Tarte flambée (Flammkuchen)🥔 Tartiflette 🥩 Terrine de Campagne 🍅 Tomates Farcies (French Stuffed Tomatoes)🐟 Trout Amandine 🥩 Veal Escalope 🍄 Veal Escalope with Mushroom Cream Sauce 🍖 Veal Sweetbreads 🥧 Vegetable Quiche 🥣 Vichyssoise 🥐 Vol-au-Vent 🥗 Warm Goat Cheese Salad ☕ Éclair au café 🍫 Éclair au chocolat 🍮 Île flottante

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. How we count →