Mirepoix
Cuisine Type French
Special Options Vegetarian
Course Essential Everyday Recipes

Ingredients List

Equal quantities:
Carrots
Celery
Onion

Recipe Description

A mirepoix is a finely diced mixture of; carrot, celery and onion. It is often sweated off in the first stages of a recipe to enhance the flavour of sauces, soups, stews and numerous other dishes. Although usually finely diced, some recipes, such as a stock recipe might call for, 'mirepoix roughly chopped' in this case it simply refers to the three vegetables of carrot, celery and onion. 'Mirepoix au gras' is simply mirepoix with meat and usually refers to the addition of bacon or ham.

Method Description

Dice into uniform pieces.
Use as per your recipe requires.

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