Ragout

Turkey -Ragout with a creamy sauce and vegetable side dish of carrots and peas

Ragout ([ ʀa'gu ], from French ragoûter , 'to stimulate the palate', 'to whet your appetite') is a type of dish consisting of diced pieces of meat , poultry , venison or vegetables in an often creamy sauce . The term was borrowed in the 17th century from the synonymous French ragoût .

species

A distinction is made between light and brown ragouts: For brown ragouts, the pieces of meat are seared until they have a brown crust all around; they are mostly stews; for the light ragouts, white meat is steamed with onions (e.g. veal fricassee). Whether the ragout is thickened with flour depends on the recipe in question, meat cubes are usually dusted after searing, for some ragouts no flour is used at all (e.g. seafood or Viennese juice goulash ). However, a light ragout should not be confused with a blanquette .

In France, the term fricassee used to refer to various light or brown ragouts, but today fricassee is made from white meat in a similar way to a blanket .

Ragoût fin is a ragout made from veal and / or young beef with an addition of poultry meat (breast, leg without skin), sometimes also veal tongue .

Pörkölt is a ragout-like meat dish in Hungarian cuisine.

Ragouts can be filled in crusts as a starter . Is the use of offal or other anatomical parts indicated (eg. As tongue ragout , kidney stew), stews can also contain bone (z. B. oxtail stew ).

Comparison of brown ragout and goulash

As with goulash, meat parts with a higher proportion of connective and fatty tissue are used for ragouts . When preparing a ragout, the meat cubes are first fried and then the onions are added, with goulash the order is reversed, as the original Hungarian goulash is steamed and therefore does not belong to the brown ragouts.

variants

Seasoning meat

Examples are the German ragoût fin served as a starter , fricassee , the Italian ragù alla bolognese or beef ragout à la bourguignonne . A Swiss variant is pre-eating .

When white ragout or Blankett (French blanquette ) is mostly white meat such as chicken, veal or rabbit first alone or with greens cooked and from the resulting broth a white sauce prepared with roux bound with egg yolk and cream alloyed is. The result is a light, very mild dish with a lot of sauce.

The seasoned meat offered in restaurants, especially in eastern Germany, is a simplified ragout fin , but is made with poultry or pork. The meat is cooked in broth and then cut into small pieces. A light sauce is made from the broth. Pieces of meat and sauce are gratinated with cheese and served with Worcestershire sauce , lemon and toast. The dish comes from the recipes of the HO restaurants in the GDR and is now mostly served as a starter or as a small main course.

A hash is prepared like a ragout from particularly heavily chopped ingredients.

Fruit ragout

A sauce tied with whole fruit or pieces of fruit is often referred to as a fruit ragout or fruit ragout - or, after the individual fruit, as a cherry ragout , etc. Cherries, raspberries, pears and plums are used, for example. Fruit ragouts are mostly served as a dessert, less often as a starter or main course.

literature

• Birgit Rehlender (Ed.): Guidelines 2019: German Food Book - Developed and decided by the German Food Book Commission at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture . 7th edition. Behr's GmbH, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95468-446-5 , p. 213 ( google.de [accessed on November 19, 2019]).
• Erhard Gorys : The new kitchen dictionary. From Aachener Printen to Zwischenrippenstück (=  dtv , no. 36245). 11th, updated new edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-36245-0 .
• Richard Hering ; F. Jürgen Herrmann (Editing / Ed.): Herings Lexicon of the Kitchen . 23rd, expanded edition. Fachbuchverlag Pfanneberg, Haan-Gruiten 2001, ISBN 3-8057-0470-4 .
• Hermann Grüner, Reinhold Metz (ed.): The young cook . 25th edition. Pfanneberg, Haan-Gruiten 2011, ISBN 978-3-8057-0386-4 , p. 384 f.

Web links

Wiktionary: Ragout  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Guiding principles for meat and meat products. (PDF) In: Guidelines 2019 - German Food Book: Developed and approved by the German Food Book Commission at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. bmel.de, p. 63 , accessed on November 20, 2019 . 
2. ^ Charlotte Turgeon: The new Larousse gastronomique: the encyclopedia of food, wine & cookery . Crown Publishers, New York 1977, ISBN 0-517-53137-2 , pp. 759 .
3. ^ Bibliographical Institute (Mannheim). Dudenredaktion .: Duden, the dictionary of origin: Etymology of the German language . 5., rework. Edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-411-04075-9 , pp. 674 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} New Larousse Gastronomique . Octopus, 2018, ISBN 978-0-600-63587-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Herrmann, F. Jürgen: Textbook for cooks . Handwerk und Technik, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-582-40055-7 , p. 195, 208-210, 227 .
6. ^ ^{A b} Franz Maier-Bruck : The great Sacher cookbook . Wiener Verlag, 1975, p. 250-253 .
7. ↑ Constance Spry, Rosemary Hume: The Constance Spry Cookery Book . Grub Street Publishers, 2014, ISBN 978-1-909166-10-3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
8. ^ Langenscheidt (Ed.): Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary French . ISBN 3-468-11159-2 , pp. 100 .
9. ↑ Curd dumplings with nougat core on an exotic fruit ragout recipe on the Koch und Küche website , accessed on February 8, 2014
10. ↑ Quail with pear ragout recipe on chefkoch.de , accessed on April 11, 2014