To please your Valentine, the two of you prepare your own meal to enjoy as a couple.
Not everyone plans to go out on Valentine’s Day night. While some opt for a fancy restaurant, others prefer to stay at home, in complete privacy. For a cocooning version in front of a romantic film, here are some recipe ideas.
On Valentine’s Day, we pull out all the stops
February 14 is the opportunity to pull out all the stops in the kitchen. Let’s leave the beaten track with stunning and refined recipes, worthy of the greatest chefs! On the agenda: aphrodisiac foods. Although it is a myth for some, aphrodisiacs promote the dilation of vessels and blood flow, actions necessary to stimulate sexual desire. Without a doubt, their effect works! Let’s make our meal exciting and cook ginger to enhance starters, main courses, desserts and even cocktails!
Visually, it’s time to add color to the plate: a little beetroot in sauce for pink pasta; in juice for tarama or in syrup for an infinitely captivating cocktail. We also create heart-shaped cakes, decorate our table with petals, light a few candles, dim the lights and set our hearts on fire with a dessert topped with flambéed meringue.
love potions
To captivate our taste buds, let’s accompany our menu with cocktails. Like love potions, let’s choose recipes for sparkling and gourmet drinks. For a couple that lasts forever, choose the potion of vitality, a “Beat Me” mocktail (“bite me” in French) for maximum tension or a flambé cocktail to keep the flame alive. In short, February 14 marks the ode to love.
Spicy menu
© Pierre Baëlen
Let’s spice up our evening with a Vichy Célestins cocktail, pomegranate, ginger and lime to accompany our entrance creamy oysters with ginger, sudachi and lemon caviar. After this full of aphrodisiac foods, let’s continue with a flat spicy: chicken biryani with mild spices, pine nuts, yogurt sauce. Finally, comes the long-awaited dessert, a pistachio and orange blossom tart. A dessert refined which requires particular attention to presentation, since it is served with a disk of white chocolate placed on a ganache and candied citrus fruits. A final note to prepare with love.
Flaming love menu
© Valéry Guedes
Let us embrace with our partner with the mocktail of temptation: “Beat Me” beetroot and pomegranate mocktail. Its mysteriously captivating color almost recalls the temptation that a certain Eve once faced in the past. This time it’s up to you to decide what the right decision will be. Let’s also enjoy citrus fruits with a entrance passionate about endives and roasted grapefruit, before continuing with a flat beet gnocchi, hazelnuts, feta. All in pink! Finally, let’s pull out all the stops with a dessert from alaska flambé. A meringue that is flambéed with a little alcohol. In short, this menu, we hope, will reflect the love of your relationship.
Chef’s menu
© Romain Ricard
A chef’s menu to celebrate the greatness of your love? It’s possible. With refinement, let’s prepare a vs cocktail with prosecco, clementines and rosemary. In entrance, the aphrodisiac is out! We cook ginger in a daal muradabaadi, a typical Indian recipe for a romantic trip at home. In flat, with its thousand flavors, a tom yam-style cod will satisfy your desire to escape. Finally, in all lightness, let’s end with a dessert high-flying, with granola, heather honey and pollen. Divine !
Atypical menu
© Valéry Guedes
To get out of the routine, let’s prepare a entrance festive by putting the foie gras back on the table. You will enjoy a chestnut velouté, royal foie gras. Room for one flat that will impress your partner: filet mignon with caramelized pears, honey, spices and hazelnuts. Let’s delight our taste buds with vscocktail rather special: a filter of vitality! Finally, to close this atypical menu, let’s prepare with love, a dessert t artelette meringue, yellow kiwi, coconut. So many flavors that will send your taste buds to 7e sky !
Vegetarian menu
© Clémence Catz
Let’s plan matches to make our hearts capsize, with a cocktail flamed. A little vodka and gin, a flame and that’s it. For a entrance colorful, we cook a vegan t arama of tofu with seaweed, colored with beetroot. Same for the flat, since we offer you pink pasta, beetroot and purslane. To close this Valentine’s Day menu worthy of the name, let’s prepare dessert Belle-Hélène pears in stage outfit. Dazzling!
Fish menu
© Grégoire Kalt
We know the refrain: shellfish and crustaceans… for newfound love! We start this fresh menu with, in entrance, a carpaccio of scallops, cauliflower and spinach. Let’s continue with a flat brown trout cooked whole in the oven, fresh butter, before finishing on an aphrodisiac note in dessert : chocolate mousse, praline, caramelized pumpkin seeds. To punctuate everything, let’s delight in a captivating mocktail Circé, in which lemonade with fig notes, honey, lemon and agave syrup captivate hearts with a surge of indulgence.