The Best Julia Child Recipes

Julia Child Salad Nicoise recipe is filled with the classic components, including olives, capers, and fresh vegetables all tossed with a simple vinaigrette.

Julia Child’s classic ratatouille recipe is the perfect recipe to with peak summers produce. Ratatouille is a colorful and robust vegetable stew with layers of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant and finished with fresh herbs and garlic.

Julia Child's cheese souffle is the epitome of a French cuisine. The gruyere cheese souffle is tall and light as can be, thanks to Julia's step by step instructions.

Julia Child’s beef bourguignon recipe is a rich beef stew with a reduced red wine sauce and and buttery herbed mushrooms and pearl onions.

Julia Child’s Coq Au Vin recipe showcases stewed chicken in a rich and buttery red wine sauce with sauteed mushrooms and pearl onions.

Julia Child’s classic recipe for mussels mariniere couldn’t be any easier. Steamed mussels are tossed with shallots, butter and fresh herbs, creating a fantastic dipping sauce.

Julia Child's chicken with herbes de Provence, also called Poulet Saute aux Herbes de Provence, is sauteed chicken that is basted in a rich hollandaise sauce that is seasoned with herbes de provence.

The unforgettable and classic recipe for Julia Child Sole Meuniere, simply made with lightly breaded fillets of sole that is served with a lemony caper butter sauce.

Julia Child’s Lobster Thermidor recipe is a feat to make but worth the labor at least once in a lifetime. Lobster thermidor is a creamy and decadent lobster dish that is flavored with white wine, mushrooms and splash of cognac.

Julia describes this cream of spinach soup as "a lovely soup, and perfect for an important dinner.” 

Leave it to Julia Child to pair cheese with fish and turn it into something extravagant. Julia Child’s scallops gratineed is an elegant dish of gratineed scallops with shallots, white wine and broiled Gruyere cheese. You'll want to grab the crusty bread for this one, because the sauce is amazing!

Julia Child's vichyssoise is a simple and classic soup with leeks and potatoes. The soup is blended to incredibly smooth and chilled, making this a perfect recipe to make during the summer.

Julia Child's recipe for French onion soup with sweet caramelized onions and topped with copious amounts of shredded Gruyere.

This is a bright and sunny dessert that is light as a cloud. Homemade lady fingers are layered with light and creamy chantilly and fresh raspberries. Perfect for a summer day!! 

This garlic soup is very hardy, comforting, and delicious. Also called, Aigo Bouido which translates to "boiled water", Julia Child's garlic soup is flavored with copious amounts of fresh garlic and herbs.

Julia Child’s Reine De Saba or Queen of Sheba Cake is so good you will never make another chocolate cake again. Amazing!!