French
Pain au Chocolat (Chocolate-Filled Pastry)
Pain au Chocolat (Chocolate-Filled Pastry) is French home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 pain au chocolat (bakery-bought butter pastry)
How to cook it
- Pick out a fresh pain au chocolat from the boulangerie counter or the bakery aisle; French households treat this as a bought treat rather than something baked at home.
- If it is not fresh from the oven, warm it for 3 to 4 minutes in a 300 F oven or toaster oven to crisp the layers back up.
- Let it cool for a minute so the chocolate inside is warm rather than scalding.
- Serve it on a small plate with coffee or hot chocolate, best saved for a weekend morning rather than every day.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pain au Chocolat (Chocolate-Filled Pastry) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| Gluten | Yes | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Pain au Chocolat (Chocolate-Filled Pastry) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on pastry, chocolate, and butter.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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