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    Home • Recipes • French Food Tips

    Recipes two egg yolks

    Collection of healthy 2 egg yolk recipes to transform your leftover yolks - or half quantities of these 4 egg yolk recipes. Pop the whites in the fridge for later to make these egg white recipes.

    For more inspiration, see all egg yolk recipes plus recipes for caramel and custards and ice cream.

    Looking for something specific? Browse the recipe index.

    • spoonful of creamy homemade Tartar sauce made with shallot, spring onions, gherkins, capers
      Homemade Tartar Sauce (Sauce Tartare)
    • glass bowls of rice puddings topped with golden sultana raisins
      French Rice Pudding (Riz au lait)
    • two rows of whole sardine fish stuffed together in a roasting dish with fresh parsley
      Roasted Fresh Sardines (Sardines Farcies)
    • high raised round buttery biscuits with a rough texture with air-holes
      French Butter Cookies (Palets Bretons)
    • whisking up a homemade mayonnaise with wasabi paste
      Wasabi Mayonnaise - Make it Homemade!
    • creamy lemon sauce poured over roasted white asparagus, served with potatoes and roast chicken
      Creamy Lemon Sauce for Chicken
    • stuffed courgettes with cheese
      Mediterranean Stuffed Zucchini (Courgettes farcies)
    • asparagus spears like sun rays on a tart
      Asparagus Tart with Puff Pastry
    • small individual asparagus clafoutis with parmesan sauce basil top
      Asparagus Clafoutis - Easy French Spring Recipe
    • plate of dark caramelised cannelés de Bordeaux with red edible Begonia flowers
      Canelé Recipe (Cannelés de Bordeaux) - Without Beeswax
    • cauliflower cream soup topped with florets and parsley candlelit
      Cauliflower Cream Soup (Crème Dubarry)
    • golden brown cheddar cheese biscuits, thin cookies great for an aperitif.
      Cheese Biscuits (Sablés au fromage)
    • slice of French blueberry tart, baked in the oven with a crisp pâte sucrée pastry and dusted with powdered sugar
      French Blueberry Tart - The Easiest Recipe
    • rhubarb and custard cheesecake, decorated with rhubarb chips and strawberries
      Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake

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    Enjoy reliable French recipes for real home kitchens - seasonal family food, macarons and desserts with less unnecessary sugar and more flavour.

    I’m Jill Colonna, a Scottish-French author and home cook, living and cooking in Paris for 30+ years. In 2010, I wrote one of the first macaron cookbooks in English.

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