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Those with a love of food cannot be without a French cookbook to give their home cooking an authentic taste from France into their own kitchen. The best French cookbook Recipe Book Reviews have read has to be The Skinny French Kitchen which is reviewed further below. This French cookbook brings you traditional French recipes such as French onion soup, boeuf bourguignon, coq au vin blanc and profiteroles au chocolat and slims down the fat and sugar content even further in the ingredients. Not an easy taste given that French cuisine is traditionally low in fat.

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The Skinny French Kitchen

The Skinny French Kitchen by food writer, TV presenter and co-founder of the cake manufacturing company Petit Pois Harry Eastwood is a welcome addition to the shelves of French cookbooks. Its unique feature is that it cuts down the calories so that those on a diet or have health issues can still enjoy French food from this collection of one hundred French recipes. Not an easy task when one considers such rich dishes as Gratin Dauphinois or Cheese Souffle. However Harry Eastwood has accomplished this without losing the all-important taste. Prior to publishing The Skinny French Kitchen, Harry asked her friends from Paris, where she has lived since her childhood, to sample her French cooking. When Marcel the fishmonger approved of her Salmon Tartare Harry Eastwood knew she had succeeded in reducing the calories in popular French cooking whilst retaining flavours.

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Each French recipe has the suggested serving with the amount of calories per serving as well as list of ingredients, how to cook and a skinny secret to help you reduce the sugar or fat content as well as cooking tips. For example the gratin dauphinois recipe has 213 calories per serving and is poached with semi-skimmed milk and garlic prior to adding small amounts of cheese and cream for this traditional French recipe.

Most ingredients for these French recipes are readily available throughout the UK and when difficult to source Harry has included where to buy them such as the stockists of snails and frogs legs in the UK. The French cookbook recipes are broken down into convenient chapters of aperitifs, sides, mains, garlic recipes and tips on cooking with garlic, creme fraiche recipes and tips on cooking with creme fraiche and pastry dishes. One important tip explains how to avoid garlic breath when eating garlic dishes - worth the price of this French cook book alone.

French soup recipes in this wonderful French cookbook include vichyssoise, cream of pumpkin soup with chilli and sage and French onion soup.

Examples of low fat French recipes include rabbit and pork terrine with pistachios and coq au vin blanc. Other main dishes include bayonne ham omelette, frog legs en persillade, sole meuniere, pan fried veal kidneys in white wine and mustard cream sauce, tomato tarte tatin (at only 101 calories per serving), ratatouille and confit de canard.

Low calorie side dishes include parsley and pomegranate couscous, haricots verts a l'ail and flageolet beans. Salads include pears poached in red wine with Roquefort and spinach salad.

Low fat snacks included in this French cookbook are croquet monsieur, chicken liver pate with sherry and shallots (165 calories) and leek and ham gratin.

No French meal would be complete without bread and Harry Eastwood has included bread recipes such as pan bagnat.

boeuf bourguignon

Harry Eastwood is a self-confessed chocoholic and this shines through in The Skinny French Kitchen with her naughty but nice recipes for Grand Marnier chocolate truffles, mini coffee éclairs and chocolate macaroons. Her sweet tooth continues with popular French cuisine and dishes like the little French cakes of Madeleines. Puddings include a 211 calorie chocolate soufflé, profiteroles au chocolat at 264 calories for a three profiterole serving and crepe suzette at 201 calories per pancake. Other sweets include rum baba and crème caramel and there are recipes for French sauces for puddings like raspberry or strawberry coulis and the French custard crème patisserie.

Photographer Laura Edwards beautifully captures Parisian life in The Skinny French Kitchen such as her picturesque photos of cafes, Eiffel Tour, and of course many of the French recipes.

The Skinny French Kitchen was published by Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, A Random House Group Company in 2011.

The Skinny French Kitchen is an inspiring French cookbook that makes you want to rush into the kitchen and start cooking some traditional French cuisine and create some new wonderful ways of giving home cooks a taste of France. Flicking through the photos of French life brightens up the day giving one an appetite for a relaxing family meal. The Skinny French Kitchen is a must for those with a love of French cooking and is the best French cookbook today.

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