French meat with potatoes in the oven - 9 recipes with photos step by step

As you know, the dish that we cook under the name "French Meat" was not invented in France at all, but in Russia back in the 19th century for Count Alexei Orlov. However, the chef who invented this delicacy was a Frenchman, hence the name. Initially, it was a casserole with a béchamel sauce made from mushrooms, veal and potatoes, and only later this delicious delicacy acquired a crispy cheese crust - gratin, which gave it a special piquant charm. We offer you 9 modern step-by-step French meat recipes.

French pork meat with potatoes in the oven

Cooking time: 1.5 hours.

Servings: 4

French pork with potatoes is a simple, but at the same time incredibly tasty and satisfying food. Moreover, it is difficult to say which is tastier: toasted potatoes, juicy meat or cheese crust. Having learned how to cook such a delicious treat, you will do it again and again, because it is simply not realistic to refuse such an attractive meat delicacy!

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  Cut the pork into portions no more than 1 cm thick and beat with a kitchen hammer.
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  Cut the peeled and washed, dried potatoes into circles (no more than 3-4 mm thick). Chop the onion into cubes or quarters of rings.
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  Grease a baking sheet or a large baking dish with vegetable oil, then put the onion in the first layer, potato mugs on the onion, as shown in the photo. Season with spices, salt.
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  Top with pork, salt and pepper it. You can grease the meat with mayonnaise and sour cream sauce. Overlap with the second layer of potatoes, season to taste.
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  Grease the dish with sour cream and mayonnaise and sprinkle with finely grated hard cheese.
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  To prevent French meat from burning, cook it under foil in a preheated oven until the potatoes are completely soft (the meat will be ready when the potatoes are baked). Temperature - 190-200 degrees, time - 1 hour or a little more. When the dish is ready, remove the foil and let it stand in the oven without the foil to form a ruddy cheese crust.
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  Eat French style pork with hot potatoes, divided into portions.

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French chicken fillet with potatoes

Chicken fillet with French fries is our family's favorite hot dish. I love to cook it, because it’s better than you can imagine how to get such a tasty, nutritious, but at the same time not heavy for the stomach dish from such simple ingredients with minimal return on my part.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast - 0.5-0.6 kg.
• Potatoes - 0.4 kg.
• Hard cheese - 150 gr.
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.
• Mayonnaise + sour cream - 4 tbsp. l.
• Salt to taste.
• Seasoning for chicken meat - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Divide the washed and dried chicken fillet into several parts, then beat it off, salt and season to taste - let it marinate while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
2. Peel the potatoes, also wash and dry, cut into circles no thicker than 0.4 cm.
3. Cut the peeled onions into thin circles, then divide them into quarters of circles or chop into cubes.
4. Grease a baking sheet or baking dish with vegetable oil, put the potatoes in the first layer, sprinkle with spices to taste and salt.
5. Put chicken meat on the potatoes, also salt it, and season with spices.
6. You can grease the chicken with a little mayonnaise to make it juicier, or you can just cover it with onions.
7. Put a layer of cheese grated on a coarse grater on a layer of onions.
8. Grease the cheese liberally with sour cream-mayonnaise sauce.
9. Bake the French chicken breast with potatoes in the oven at 190 degrees until cooked through, which will take about 50 minutes. If necessary, lower or increase the temperature a little so that everything is evenly baked and not burnt.
10. Eat hot, cut into portions.

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Step-by-step recipe for cooking French meat with mushrooms

French meat goes well with any mushrooms, especially if pork tenderloin is chosen as the meat component, however, such food is very high in calories and is not useful for everyone. But how delicious it is! We offer you a recipe for pork with mushrooms, but you can also cook such a dish with boiled or pickled forest mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• Pork - 0.7 kg.
• Champignons - 0.5 kg.
• Potatoes - 0.5-0.6 kg.
• Bulb onions - 3-4 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 200 gr.
• Mayonnaise + sour cream - 200 gr.
• Mustard - 2 tbsp. l.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying mushrooms + for greasing the mold.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the pork, dry it, divide it into portions, each of which should be about the size of a woman's palm. Beat off the meat on both sides.
2. Salt each piece, brush with mustard and lightly black pepper. You can also add pork spices. Let the meat marinate in a bowl while you prepare the rest.
3. Champignons can be taken both raw and pickled. Clean raw mushrooms from debris, rinse and cut into small flat pieces.
4. Fry the mushrooms in a hot skillet in a little well-heated vegetable oil. Fry, stirring occasionally, no more than 2-3 minutes.
5. Peel the potatoes, wash, dry and cut into equal circles no thicker than 3-5 mm.
6. Grate the cheese and chop the onion into cubes.
7. Grease a baking sheet or baking dish with a little vegetable oil.
8. Put potato mugs in the first layer, they need to be salted and pepper to taste, and you can also season with spices for meat or for potatoes.
9. Place the meat marinated in mustard and spices on top of the potatoes.
10. Next comes a layer of mushrooms, on top is a layer of onions.
11. Sprinkle everything with grated cheese, and then brush the top with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream.
12. Bake the meat in French in the oven at 200 degrees for at least 50-60 minutes (or be guided by how your oven bakes). The temperature during baking will need to be reduced by about 10 degrees if the crust on top begins to stick too quickly.
13. Eat this dish hot or slightly cooled.

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A simple recipe for French meat with minced meat and potatoes

In French with potatoes, you can bake not only broken pieces of meat, but also twisted minced meat: the layer of minced meat turns out to be softer than from whole pieces. Of course, this dish will be much tastier if you make the minced meat yourself, for example, from pork and beef or chicken breast and pork. The secret to juicy French meat is a lot of onions and a lot of cheese, so don't spare them!

Ingredients:

• Minced pork - 0.7 kg.
• Potatoes - 0.5-0.6 kg.
• Bulb onions - 3-4 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 200 gr.
• Mayonnaise + sour cream - 150-200 gr.
• Salt to taste.
• Spices for minced meat - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.

Cooking process:

1. On a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, put the first layer of potatoes, cut into circles no more than 0.3-0.5 cm thick.
2. Salt the potatoes, season with pepper and dried spices suitable for minced meat (a set of spices for minced meat is best taken from the store ready-made).
3. Stir the minced meat with salt and spices, as well as one or two onions, chopped into cubes.
4. Put the minced meat on the potatoes, spreading it evenly.
5. Cut the remaining onion into half rings and put on the minced meat.
6. Grate the cheese.
7. Spread the sour cream and mayonnaise sauce in the last layer.
8. Bake minced meat and potatoes in French in the oven, which is already heated to 190-200 degrees. Time is 50-60 minutes.
9. Bake until the potatoes are tender, because the minced meat and all other ingredients will bake even faster. Serve hot in portions.

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French beef meat with potatoes and tomatoes

Hearty French beef with potatoes is a very appetizing hot dish that is not ashamed to serve on any festive table. Most likely, experienced housewives are already familiar with this recipe and have tried them more than once in their home kitchen, and we strongly recommend to all novice cooks to cook such meat as soon as possible: it will be delicious!

Ingredients:

• Beef - 700-800 gr.
• Potatoes - 600 gr.
• Sour cream + mayonnaise - 150-200 ml.
• Tomatoes - 3-4 pcs. optional.
• Hard cheese - 200 gr.
• Salt to taste.
• Onions - 3-4 pcs.
• Garlic to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Beef spices - to taste.
• Sunflower oil - for lubricating the mold.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the beef and clean it of films and tendons, but it is best to use soft beef tenderloin.
2. Cut the beef into thin slices and beat on both sides.
3. Marinate the meat in spices, in ground black pepper and do not forget to salt to taste.
4. Peel the potatoes and cut into thin circles.
5. Grate the cheese and cut the onion into thin quarters of rings or just small cubes.
6. For the sauce, peel and chop the garlic very finely, combine it with sour cream and mayonnaise, stir.
7. Grease a baking dish or baking sheet with vegetable oil.
8. Put the potato circles in the first layer, sprinkle them with salt, ground black pepper and smear with a little sauce.
9. Put a layer of meat on the potatoes, onion - on the meat. Lightly brush with sauce.
10. On this layer, you can put tomatoes, cut into thin circles (however, French beef is delicious without them, so if you don't add - it's okay!).
11. Sprinkle the top with cheese and be sure to grease with sauce, otherwise the cheese will burn.
12. Heat the oven to 190-200 degrees, place the meat for roasting for 1 hour, at least, because the beef itself is not soft. If necessary, reduce the temperature during baking so that the top or bottom of the dish does not burn.
13. Check the readiness of the potatoes and meat in an hour, if you need to keep the dish in the oven for a few more minutes.
14. Serve hot French beef in portions or on one large platter.

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Juicy French meat with potatoes, cheese and tomatoes

With cheese and tomatoes, French-style meat will be even tastier than the usual classic cooking version of this dish. For pork, in addition to ground black pepper, ground coriander, basil, oregano, paprika, turmeric, curry, rosemary are also suitable. By the way, this dish can be cooked without potatoes, pork is perfectly baked with onions, cheese and tomatoes on a baking sheet, and then served with any side dish, however, potatoes are present in our recipe.

Ingredients:

• Pork - 600-800 gr.
• Potatoes - 500-600 gr.
• Tomatoes - 3-4 pcs.
• Onions - 2-3 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 150-200 gr.
• Mayonnaise - 3-4 tbsp l.
• Sour cream - 3-4 tbsp. l.
• Salt to taste.
• Pork spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.

Cooking process:

1. Cut pork without bones and tendons into portions of the size and thickness of a small woman's palm.
2. Beat the meat on both sides, covering with cling film.
3. Then add salt to each piece of meat and season to taste: while you work on other ingredients, the meat will be marinated.
4. Peel potatoes and onions; Cut the potatoes into circles 3-5 mm thick, and the onions into thin quarters of rings or cubes.
5. Grate the cheese.
6. Cut the meat into palm-sized portions, onions - into rings, tomatoes and potatoes - into slices, cheese - on a coarse grater.
7. Cut the tomatoes with a thin knife so as not to crush them, into circles no thicker than potatoes.
8. On a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, put the first layer of potatoes, salt and pepper it.
9. The second layer is pork. The third layer is onions, the fourth is tomato circles.
10. Sprinkle the tomatoes with cheese, cover the top of the dish with sauce (mayonnaise + sour cream).
11. While collecting the layers of the dish, your oven should already have heated up to 190-200 degrees.
12. Roast meat with potatoes, cheese and tomatoes for no more than 50-60 minutes (or use your oven as your guide). If the cheese begins to brown quickly on top, then reduce the heat a little so that the dish is baked inside.
13. Check the readiness for the potatoes: when it becomes soft, then know that everything else has already been baked. Eat this dish with fresh or pickled vegetables hot or slightly cooled.

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Delicious French-style meat cooked in foil in the oven

French meat can be baked not only on an open baking sheet, but also in foil. This type of cooking is perfect if the meat is a little harsh, because the foil holds all the juices in place, preventing them from evaporating. The dish can be cooked with or without potatoes. If you decide without potatoes, then put the meat on a layer of foil greased with oil, and then follow the recipe.

Ingredients:

• Pork - 600 gr.
• Potatoes - 500-600 gr.
• Bulb onions - 3 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 300 gr.
• Mayonnaise - 150 ml.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper to taste.
• Pork spices - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse pork (or beef) tenderloin or any other meat part without bones and tendons, cut into pieces no thicker than 1 cm and the size of your palm.
2. Beat the meat on both sides, covering it with foil, but do not make the pieces too thin, otherwise all the juiciness will go away from them.
3. Now, in order for the harsh meat to become juicier, it needs to be marinated in a small amount of mayonnaise, after rubbing with salt and spices.
4. Peel and cut the potatoes into thin circles or halves if the potatoes are too large.
5. Wash the onion, peel, cut into half rings.
6. Hard cheese (you can also processed, if you hold it for an hour in the freezer) grate on a coarse grater.
7. Use the foil folded in two layers to form a baking dish for your dish. It is most convenient to make several small foil boxes, for example, according to the number of intended eaters.
8. Lubricate the inside with vegetable oil, put potatoes on the bottom, then salt it, and sprinkle with a little black pepper.
9. Put the meat on the potatoes, on the meat - a layer of onions.
10. Sprinkle the onion with cheese and brush everything with mayonnaise.
11. Wrap the meat completely in foil, but leave some space on top to prevent the mayonnaise from smearing on the foil.
12. The dish is baked in the oven at 190-200 degrees for about 45-60 minutes (if you have small foil boxes, the meat will bake in them faster).
13. When the meat and potatoes are completely cooked, unfold the foil on top and hold the dish under the grill for a delicious brown cheese crust on top.

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French meat with onions and potatoes

In order to cook delicious French meat with onions and potatoes, you need the simplest ingredients: any meat without bones and sinews, onions or any other onion of your choice, cheese, potatoes, mayonnaise and spices. And the recipe for cooking - it couldn't be simpler!

Ingredients:

• Any meat without bones - 0.5 kg.
• Potatoes - 0.5 kg.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Tomatoes - 2-3 pcs. optional.
• Garlic to taste.
• Hard cheese - 150 gr.
• Mayonnaise + sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.
• Spices for meat - to taste.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the potatoes, wash, cut into circles no more than 5 mm thick.
2. Any meat (if it is pork or beef, then it should be a tenderloin or fillet, and for a chicken - fillet), wash, cut into palm-sized pieces no more than 1 cm thick.
3. Beat off the meat a little on both sides, covering with foil.
4. Grease the bottom of the baking dish with a little vegetable oil, put the potato circles on it.
5. Salt and pepper the potatoes to taste (you can use a ready-made set of spices for potatoes).
6. Next, put the meat on the potatoes, salt and pepper, and season it with other spices for meat, if you want, but in principle there is enough salt and black pepper to make this dish tasty.
7. If you have dryish pork or beef, then you can grease it quite a bit with mayonnaise on top for juiciness.
8. Peel the onions and garlic, chop the onion into thin quarters of rings, you can also chop finely. Chop the garlic finely with a knife.
9. Put chopped garlic and onion evenly over the meat. There should be a lot of onion, even if it is bitter, since when baked, the bitterness from the onion leaves, and its juice permeates any meat well.
10. Cut the tomatoes into thin circles or halves. Place them on the onion layer.
11. Grate hard cheese, distribute over the tomatoes.
12. On top, grease the dish with a thin layer of mayonnaise and sour cream. Mayonnaise alone can be used as long as it is not too greasy.
13. Heat the oven to 200-190 degrees and bake the meat for at least 50-60 minutes (or focus on your oven).
14. Easy-to-cook French meat with onions will decorate your table, both on weekdays and on holidays. Eat it hot!

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A simple and delicious recipe for French turkey meat with potatoes

And at the end of the selection, there is another version of French meat - a delicious dish of turkey and potatoes baked in the oven. It is also easy to prepare it, like any other version of this dish, but it turns out to be more tender, because turkey meat is dietary compared to pork or beef, therefore it is better and faster absorbed.

Ingredients:

• Turkey fillet - 0.5-0.7 kg.
• Potatoes - 0.5-0.6 kg.
• Onions - 2-3 pcs.
• Hard cheese - 150 gr.
• Mayonnaise + sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.
• Spices for poultry - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the peeled potatoes, dry them, cut them into circles no thicker than 0.3-0.5 cm. Put them in the first layer on a baking sheet or in a baking dish, add salt and pepper to taste. Do not forget to grease the baking sheet (form) with oil.
2. Cut the turkey fillet into slices across the fibers no thicker than 1 cm. Beat each sliced ​​fillet a little with a culinary hammer, covering the fillet with foil.
3. Sprinkle the fillet with spices, do not forget about black pepper with salt.
4. Put a layer of turkey meat on the potatoes.
5. Cut the peeled turnips into halves or smaller (you can use the white part of the leek, as well as its young shoots).
6. Put the onion on a layer of meat, pouring the meat evenly. Onions should not be small - it is he who gives the meat great juiciness!
7. Grate the cheese and spread evenly over the onion. Spread mayonnaise on top using a cooking spatula.
8. Bake French turkey meat in an oven heated to 190-200 degrees. If your oven is convection, then its temperature should be 10-20 degrees lower than indicated.
9. The dish takes about 50-60 minutes to cook. Let it cool slightly and serve with sliced ​​fresh vegetables.

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Advice: French turkey fillet can be prepared not only with potatoes, but also with tomatoes and mushrooms, putting these ingredients on top of the potato and meat layers, and then sprinkle them with onions, cheese and coat with mayonnaise.