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Cookbook Spotlight: Le Marais

Avatar photoMark Hennessey and Jose de Meirelles • May 4, 2016 (Updated: Aug 20, 2019)
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Pan-Roasted Breast of Duck with French Green-Lentil Salad

Le Marais, NY: Pan-Roasted Breast of Duck with French Green-Lentil Salad

Le Marais restaurant is NYC’s only kosher French brasserie, renowned for its excellent cuisine and in-house retail butcher shop since 1995. Executive Chefs Mark Hennessey and Jose de Meirelles have teamed up to share their secrets and stellar recipes, and the result is the release of their cookbook, Le Marais: A Rare Steakhouse – Well Done. 

Get to know the personalities behind the Le Marais restaurant experience while learning how to create its incredible
 delicacies at home. In sections covering sauces, soups, salads, bread, pasta, risotto, beef, lamb, veal, poultry, fish, sides, and desserts, this beautifully
 illustrated cookbook gives you the techniques and
 recipes you’ll need to bring French gourmet into the kosher kitchen (or any kitchen).

Hip and irreverent, the Le Marais: A Rare Steakhouse – Well Done cookbook is your entrée to the world of French cuisine that just happens to be fully kosher. Braised duck legs with white pearl
 onions and petite pois, anyone?

Here is a sneak peek of the recipes you will find in Le Marais …

PAN-ROASTED BREAST OF DUCK WITH FRENCH GREEN-LENTIL SALAD

A duck breast is always an elegant component to a meal. The elements of this can all be made in advance and then just put together at the service time. The cardinal sin is to overcook the breast; the highest acceptable temperature is medium, and even that is pushing it. If it doesn’t have a pink hue throughout the entire breast, it’s overcooked.    

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WHOLE ROAST PRIME RIB OF BEEF

This juicy Whole Roast Prime Rib of Beef is topeed with a red wine-based Jus, and is perfect for any special occassion.  

AIRLINE BREAST OF CHICKEN FORESTIERE

The airline breast is a more sophisticated way of serving the usually boring chicken breast. Also, cooking it in this fashion helps to keep the meat from drying out.   

Recipes posted with permission from Le Marais: A Rare Steakhouse – Well Done, by Mark Hennessey and Jose de Mereilles

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About Mark Hennessey and Jose de Meirelles

Mark Hennessey is Executive Chef at Le Marais in NY. He began cooking when he reached the age where he needed more food
 than his poor mother could prepare. After graduating the Culinary Institute of America in New York, through which he served an
 externship at the Scottsdale Princess Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, he went on to become sous chef of Stingray on the Upper
 West Side. Following a four-year run at Les Routiers, he became executive chef at the kosher restaurant Levana, paving the way
 for his (so far) eleven years at Le Marais, the city’s only kosher French brasserie, renowned for its excellent cuisine and in-house
 retail butcher shop.
Jose de Meirelles is Executive Chef and co-owner of Le Marais NY and Clubhouse Cafe.
 He has loved cooking since he was a small boy growing up in Portugal. Although he
 attended business school and became a banker, food and cooking remained a dominant
 passion, and in 1987 he graduated the French Culinary Institute in New York. After stints
 at the famed La Réserve, Maxim’s, and Park Bistro, José decided to bring his classical
 style of cooking to the kosher community. He opened Le Marais NY in 1995 with
 Philippe Lajaunie in the Times Square area.

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  1. Joy Resmovits

    May 11, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    the duck!

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  2. Zahava roth

    May 10, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    The chicken breast!

    Reply
  3. superdumb

    May 9, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    The prime rib!!!

    Reply
  4. Steph

    May 9, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    I always wanted to make a prime rib!

    Reply
  5. Dee Dymek Ripple

    May 9, 2016 at 1:38 pm

    Wow, three of those recipes would be amazing to try! Yummmmmm!

    Reply
  6. Emma Pearlman

    May 9, 2016 at 6:42 am

    That duck looks good to me

    Reply
  7. anne

    May 8, 2016 at 12:53 am

    I would love to make the chicken breast recipes which look delectable.

    Reply
  8. Chavie Hagler

    May 6, 2016 at 4:56 pm

    chicken looks great

    Reply
  9. Ellen Taylor Barth

    May 6, 2016 at 1:51 am

    The Airline Breast of chicken!

    Reply
  10. Eva J

    May 6, 2016 at 1:49 am

    The Whole Roast Prime Rib of Beef looks so good. Although I try to eat fish and chicken more often, beef is still the best.

    Reply
  11. Fey

    May 5, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    I would make the chicken breast recipe

    Reply
  12. deedee

    May 5, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    I would try the chicken breast recipes

    Reply
  13. Cherie F

    May 5, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    love prime rib!

    Reply
  14. Karen K.

    May 5, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Enjoy the restaurant. No longer live close to NYC to go to the restaurant, would love to be able to make some recipes at home.

    Reply
  15. alapi

    May 5, 2016 at 12:03 pm

    Having eaten there many times and loving it, I cant wait to try these recipes at home.

    Reply
  16. Silky

    May 5, 2016 at 11:43 am

    I have to try those recipes. They sound so good!

    Reply
  17. e.s.

    May 5, 2016 at 11:37 am

    The chicken is I what I would probably try first.

    Reply
  18. lindydnil

    May 5, 2016 at 9:06 am

    I’d love to try the recipe for the whole prime rib as Ive always been intimidated by the task buy now Im ready to soar!

    Reply
  19. joanknudson

    May 5, 2016 at 7:36 am

    On special occasions, I would go with the whole roast prime rib of beef, too, and make my serving well done.

    Reply
  20. trenjy

    May 5, 2016 at 2:15 am

    I would make the whole roast prime rib of beef

    Reply
  21. ceeshell beach

    May 5, 2016 at 1:04 am

    IT is a tossup between airline breast and the duck breast. what I really love is maryland blue crabs steamed with lots of old bay, white corn, and slaw

    Reply
  22. debbie

    May 5, 2016 at 12:38 am

    I’d love to recreate the dinner that my husband and I had on our 1st date

    Reply
  23. kne

    May 5, 2016 at 12:06 am

    Looks like a great cookbook!

    Reply
  24. Shoshana J M

    May 4, 2016 at 9:34 pm

    That pan roasted duck looks amaziingg.

    Reply
  25. chavie

    May 4, 2016 at 8:10 pm

    the airline chicken forestiere looks delicious!

    Reply
  26. MK

    May 4, 2016 at 7:06 pm

    The pic of AIRLINE BREAST OF CHICKEN FORESTIERE makes my mouth water.

    Reply

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