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New Cooking Method...to me anyway.

Wife surprised me with a cooking class for my birthday. We learned how to cook in a style called en papilotte, which means in paper.

We cooked salmon with fresh herbs, lemon juice, and a pat of herb butter on top. Salmon was dusted with S&P. The technique steamship the fish inside of the parchment. It is really good. It is not necessarily egg specific, but it can be done. Truth be told, at 17 degrees outside, I wasn't feeling the egg today and used the...gasp...oven.
Mark Annville, PA

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  • Tjcoley
    Tjcoley Posts: 3,551
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  • Duganboy
    Duganboy Posts: 1,118
    Was in West Palm Beach this fall and some restaurant had grouper in a brown paper bag as the house speciality.  It was great.  I assume this is a similiar technique.
  • Yes, same technique.
    Mark Annville, PA
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 32,671
    started cooking haddock that way last summer, makes for a nice light meal verse baking it. its a great method
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • AleBrewer
    AleBrewer Posts: 555
    We have done cod and haddock a few times using this method....turns out well.
  • Bjorg
    Bjorg Posts: 241
    When I cook en papillotte, I use foil directly on the grill. Any benefit to using parchment paper?
    Quebec - Canada
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 32,671
    Bjorg said:
    When I cook en papillotte, I use foil directly on the grill. Any benefit to using parchment paper?
    i use tomatoes in mine, not sure how much flavor from the aluminum would pick up in the dish but if you use foil on tomatoes it seems to fall apart after a while in the fridge
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Bjorg said:

    When I cook en papillotte, I use foil directly on the grill. Any benefit to using parchment paper?

    The chef that showed us actually said you could use foil or parchment. You have to cut your cook time back a few minutes because the foil conducts more heat. If using the grill over direct heat, foil is the only way to go.
    Mark Annville, PA
  • Bjorg
    Bjorg Posts: 241
    Thanks Cort, that's what I thought. 

    I usually cook my side vegetables in it: french green beans with butter S/P and cheese. Onions and mushrooms with raising the steak and butter. Potatoes sliced thin with mandolina with butter, shallots and cheese. Anything goes. Direct over fire at around 400 usually, but can be indirect. 
    Quebec - Canada
  • Back in the day when I was a Boy Scout we called that a "Hobo Pack".  And we didn't do no stinkin "Franch" cookin in the Boy scouts!
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
    I've done en papillotte.  It sounds sexier than it is.  It's really just a fancy name for steaming.  You can open the "steamer" on your plate, rather than put steamed food on a plate, which is part of the charm.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    That is cool.  I would think that using parchment on the egg might allow a little bit of smoke flavor in the food since it is somewhat permeable. 


    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

  • cortguitarman
    cortguitarman Posts: 2,061
    edited January 2013

    That is cool.  I would think that using parchment on the egg might allow a little bit of smoke flavor in the food since it is somewhat permeable. 

    I'm not sure. I don't think you'll get much smoke. To do the fold with parchment, get a large piece of parchment and fold in half. Cut it like you used to cut a paper heart in elementary school. (I teach elementary school, so I still do this every year).

    Start at the top of the heart and make very small overlapping folds around the edge. Keep the folds small, or you won't make it around the corner. When you get to the bottom, tuck the tail under. Use lots of fresh herbs, citrus juice and butter or olive oil. Very tasty. It is very good if you put the fish on top of a bed of baby spinach or salad greens.

    The coolest part, as Nola said, is to serve them wrapped up. When your diners open them, they get a waft of the steam with the smell of everything married together.
    Mark Annville, PA
  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 15,432
    edited January 2013
    I think it was Alton Brown who demonstrated a foil [i]en papillotte[/i] wherein he placed an unbroken ramen noodle cake on the center of a square of foil, piled on some veggies, a few shrimp, and then pulled up/sealed the foil in a Hershey's Kiss shape, and poured in some chicken broth before sealing; bake in the oven.  
    It was kind've fun, but as Nola said above, its all about presentation; doing the above recipe in a small pot is just as good and much easier.  
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  • Botch said:

    I think it was Alton Brown who demonstrated a foil [i]en papillotte[/i] wherein he placed an unbroken ramen noodle cake on the center of a square of foil, piled on some veggies, a few shrimp, and then pulled up/sealed the foil in a Hershey's Kiss shape, and poured in some chicken broth before sealing; bake in the oven.  

    It was kind've fun, but as Nola said above, its all about presentation; doing the above recipe in a small pot is just as good and much easier.  
    It was pretty easy to do the fish en papillote. Not really sure that one method is easier than the other. I was just presenting a cooking technique that I learned.
    Mark Annville, PA