France celebrated Bastille Day last week, and restauranteur Kiril Mihajlov executive chef Alan Vargas of The Consulate stopped by Cheddar News to prepare a classic French dish. 



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How to Prepare a Classic French Dish for Bastille Day 

And welcome back friends. You need to know. I'm and I'm Hanna do. But today July 14th, it is France's national celebration of Bastille Day and across France, they're already celebrating with fireworks and parades here in the US. The French community is also marking the day. So we decided to bring in two special guests who can help us celebrate by showing us how to prepare a classic French dinner. So excited about this. So let's welcome executive chef, Alan Vargas and restaurateur from the consulate. That is a favorite French restaurant right here in New York. Gentlemen, thanks so much for getting up early with us today and Happy Bastille Day. Thank you. Thank you for having us. So I'm gonna start with you. How is Bastille Day celebrated in France? Are there traditional activities that people do every year? So usually like um it's a uh parade. Then the people celebrate on the streets. There's like a lot of fireworks uh especially in Versailles uh day before the fire places, they open the doors for public. So the people come over there like they dance, they celebrate, they drink, they eat. Yes, let's talk about the food here, you're gonna show us how to prepare a classic French omelet, which is one of my favorite things to get when I'm out there. So, what's the first step here? Well, the first thing is you gotta mix all the eggs pretty well. So I usually beat them for about a minute. Ok. And the key is to put a little water in it, a little water. So you do water instead of like maybe like a dairy product, it is much better. OK. Then once you cook in, you put here, how important is the temperature and timing as you do this? Um I'd keep it a medium. OK? Because you don't wanna overcook the protein. Yes. And you incorporate a lot of air like start moving it around and picking out from the sides. So while chef is doing this, what are some of the typical ingredients and toppings we might usually put in traditional French omelet in traditional. So chef is here like about that. So our, our omelet is uh pretty popular. We have uh we put caramelized onions and cheese, which is uh goat cheese with chives and garlic. And you have all the toppings here. Yeah, all the toppings. Yeah, we're gonna put them inside and chef while you do that, you're actually making a cocktail for us. Tell us about that. So we have a traditional um is like um our signature cocktail is called and it has like a blackberry vodka Uh So it looks like this one a bit slower and the sparkling wine. So why don't you hand me that drink right over there. I'll take a sip of it. Go ahead and hand it over because never too early to start drinking. Right. Thank you so much, Allen. Well, Baker sis, what are some other traditional foods that people might eat on Bastille Day? For example, I'm allergic to eggs so I can't eat that. What else? What else can we have? Lovely steak fruits that we have and we have lots of specials. We have scallops, um lots of fish. You guys should still buy dinner. Yes, we love that. Uh really quickly. Uh Any things that you people can do to celebrate Bastille Day today? There is um some uh uh this uh on 62nd street. They usually close the street and um this food and dancing and fireworks. I can't wait for all of it. And if the drinks taste as good as this, we're gonna have a good day today guys. Alright. Thanks to Chef Alan Vargas and owner of the consulate restaurant. Uh Thank you guys. Thank you so much for joining us.