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    Home โ€ข Recipes โ€ข French Food Tips

    Recipes three egg yolks

    What to do with 3 leftover egg yolks. Save them to make these healthy three egg yolk recipes. To use up 6 egg yolks, simply double the quantities in the following recipes.

    Use the yolks first and store the whites covered in the fridge (or freeze) to make egg white recipes.ย For more, see all egg yolk recipes plus recipes for caramel and custards.

    • pan of cooked spaghetti, tossed with a creamy lemon pasta sauce with parmesan and poppy seeds
      Creamy Lemon Pasta Sauce
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      French Crรจme Caramel (flan aux oeufs au caramel)
    • Blanquette de veau, a creamy French veal stew, bubbling in a pot with carrots, mushrooms, pearl onions and topped with parsley
      French's Favourite Veal Stew (Blanquette de Veau Recipe)
    • spoonful of creamy orange curd, naturally thickened using egg yolks
      Creamy Orange Curd Recipe - A Perfect Crรชpe Filling
    • honey biscuits or cookies, golden, glazed and in love heart shapes
      Honey Biscuits with Lemon
    • slice of chocolate plate with eiffel tower served with a thin custard sauce
      Crรจme Anglaise with Chai Tea (Thin French Custard)
    • black forest chocolate cherry cream with macarons
      No Bake Chocolate Puddings (crรจme au chocolat)
    • large pink macaron with pastry cream with a border of raspberries
      Passion Fruit and Raspberry Macaron Filling
    • caramel pineapple rice pudding
      Caramelised Pineapple Rice Pudding (Riz Condรฉ)
    • sauce boat filled with creamy Bearnaise surrounded by its classic ingredients
      Bรฉarnaise Sauce (Sauce Bรฉarnaise)

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