Finished Dish Recipes

Appears in
Professional Garde Manger: A Comprehensive Guide to Cold Food Preparation

By Jaclyn Pestka, Wayne Gisslen and Lou Sackett

Published 2010

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A recipe that explains how to assemble component recipes into a finished dish is a finished dish recipe. These finished dish recipes are identified by the knife and fork icon by the recipe title. Finished dish recipes help you learn how each particular garde manger preparation is properly presented and served.

One characteristic of a typical finished-dish recipe is that its ingredients list is largely composed of component recipes. In this book, the ingredients of a finished dish recipe are entitled “components.” To prepare a finished dish recipe, you must first prepare all of its component recipes.