The Heritage Stoneware Collection embodies Le Creuset’s commitment to excellent craftsmanship and premium materials with designs dating back to Le Creuset’s earliest days. Today, Le Creuset has once again innovated this timeless collection, launching a variety of bold colours along with its iconic and versatile Heritage collection.
Our Heritage Collection features Le Creuset staples, including the Rectangular Casseroles and Rectangular Dishes, which offer versatility in use not to mention beautiful designs. Crafted with durable stoneware, our Heritage collection is built to last daily use, accommodating a variety of cooking techniques and new recipes.
Here is a complete guide to Le Creuset’s Heritage collection, including a few recipes with which you can experiment.
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Rectangular Casserole
Our Rectangular Casserole can be used for far more than just baking and is perfectly suited for preparing layered casseroles for the whole family. This iconic piece of cookware is built to last, featuring a durable stoneware construction.
The Rectangular Casserole is designed to retain heat for longer periods of time, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source. Its tight-fitting lid locks in heat and moisture, replacing the need for foil, and is great for keeping food warm at the table. As such, this casserole also makes for a great piece of cookware to transport dishes to dinners, potlucks, and more.
The Rectangular Casserole is available in one size (3.8L), accommodating larger recipes in style. Whether you are preparing a classic Tiramisu, or a decadent Mac and Cheese, this casserole has you covered.
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Rectangular Dish
Our Rectangular Dish is yet another extremely versatile piece of bakeware in our Heritage Collection, serving a variety of crucial tasks around the kitchen. From roasting ingredients to preparing layered dishes and even marinating larger cuts of protein, this dish makes for a great addition to any Le Creuset collection.
Crafted with heat-retaining stoneware, our Rectangular Dish keeps food warmer at the table for longer, doubling as a convenient piece of serveware. Its enamel glaze ensures it can be stored both at room temperature or in the fridge or freezer, making it perfect for desserts.
Our Rectangular Dish comes in four different sizes, including 1.1 L, 2.3 L, 3.8 L, and 4.7 L, accommodating both big and small recipes.
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Oval Casserole
Our Oval Casserole embodies versatility in the kitchen, helping home cooks and chefs alike tackle their favourite recipes. This casserole can be used for roasting ingredients, baking desserts, broiling fish, and even marinating protein before cooking.
Featuring a tight-fitting lid and easy-to-grip grooved side handles, our Oval Casserole is the ultimate addition to your kitchen setup, simplifying everyday meal preparation. An excellent retainer of heat, this casserole is crafted to lock in heat and moisture, cooking food evenly. Its Oval shape is ideal for accommodating roasts and even a small roasted chicken.
Our Oval Casserole comes in two different sizes, including the 2.3 L and 3.8 L as well as a variety of bold colours, complimenting or contrasting your existing stoneware wonderfully.
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Oval Au Gratin Dish
Our Oval Au Gratin Dish is the only piece of cookware you’ll need to prepare recipes that call for a crisp topping. Equally suited for being stored at room temperature or in the fridge or freezer due to its enamel glaze, this dish can be used for preparing and storing delicious side dishes and entrées.
Our Oval Au Gratin Dish provides a wide, shallow baking area, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source thanks to its durable stoneware construction. Built to last a lifetime, this Heritage piece of bakeware can eventually be passed on as a family heirloom.
Available in four sizes (0.6 L, 1 L, 1.6 L, and 2.9 L), our Oval Au Gratin Dish is as versatile as they come and even doubles as a bold piece of serveware.
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Square Dish
Our Heritage Square Dish is a great way to familiarize yourself with Le Creuset’s Heritage Collection, helping you prepare delicious desserts, side dishes, or a dinner for two with ease.
Like any piece in Le Creuset’s Heritage Collection, our Square Dish is crafted with heat-retaining stoneware, ensuring superior heat retention and durability for years to come. Its deep sidewalls make this dish ideal for preparing small casseroles, layered baked pastas, and smaller desserts. Indeed, preparing dessert bars with this square dish is ideal due to its shape, delivering neat, square pieces.
Coming in one size (2.8L) and six bold colours, our Heritage Square Dish is everything you want in a piece of cookware. Durable, versatile, and easy-to-use, this dish is a must-have in any kitchen.
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If you are looking to equip your kitchen for years to come, look no further than our Heritage collection sets, featuring the perfect combination of quality cookware and bakeware.
Our Rectangular Casserole and Dish Set is the perfect combination and is equally suited for weeknight cooking or when hosting guests over the weekend. Whether you want to roast vegetables, prepare your very own casserole, or marinate ingredients, this set accommodates in style.
Crafted with durable stoneware, our Rectangular Casserole and Dish Set provides superior heat retention and makes for a perfect piece of serveware, keeping food warm well after it has been served.
Our Rectangular Casserole and Dish Set is among the most complete two-piece sets available, helping you prepare family sized meals as well as delicious side dishes, appetizers, and desserts with ease.
Shop the setOur Set of Covered Casseroles is suited for tackling a variety of everyday tasks around the kitchen, helping you elevate everyday meal preparation with ease.
Our Rectangular and Oval Casserole complement one another to perfection, with each shape accommodating its own recipes and cooking techniques. The Rectangular Casserole, for example, is ideal for preparing layered dishes, while the Oval Casserole is more suited for baking desserts and roasting meat and vegetables.
Our Set of Covered Casseroles is a great way to bring timeless elegance to your kitchen and dinner table, deriving its inspiration from Le Creuset’s earliest designs. Our Covered Casserole Set includes the 2.3 L Oval Casserole and 3.8 L Rectangular Casserole.
Shop the setOur Set of 3 Baking Dishes is among the best ways to equip your kitchen with three of Le Creuset’s bakeware essentials. Featuring our Oval, Square, and Rectangular Dishes, this three-piece set accommodates a variety of recipes and common kitchen tasks.
Our Set of 3 Baking Dishes exposes ingredients to a consistent heat source, ensuring all your ingredients are cooked evenly. From preparing cakes and delicious side dishes, to full on casseroles, our Set of 3 Baking Dishes is as versatile a collection Le Creuset offers.
Crafted with durable stoneware, this three-piece set embodies the buy-it-once-for-life nature of quality cookware and bakeware and can be used for years to come.
Shop the setOur Set of 4 Mini Oval Au Gratin Dishes serve a number of purposes around the kitchen, ranging from baking gratins to serving desserts. This set particularly excels at serving individual portions such as coquilles St Jacques or tartare and can even be used to serve olives or nuts during cocktail hour.
Our Set of 4 Mini Oval Au Gratin Dishes are great for preparing recipes that require a crisp topping, retaining heat exceptionally well due to its durable stoneware construction. Featuring an enamel glaze, these dishes can even be stored in the fridge or freezer.
Our Set of Mini Oval Au Gratin Dishes includes four 0.18 L dishes, helping you serve up four identical portions for the whole family.
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These three recipes are a great place to start with your Heritage collection, offering easy-to-make dishes for the whole family.
Blueberry and Almond Croissants
Our Blueberry and Almond Croissants are the perfect recipe to experiment with your Heritage collection, offering bakery-worthy results from the comfort of your own kitchen. The combination of the ricotta frangipane and the sweetness of the berries make for a truly well-balanced croissant.
The 4.7 L Rectangular Dish is the ideal piece of bakeware to prepare this recipe, exposing the egg mixture and the croissant bottoms to a consistent heat source for an even bake. Finish by topping the croissant bottoms with the almonds and remaining blueberries before sprinkling with icing sugar and maple syrup.
Our Blueberry and Almond Croissants takes just under two hours to prepare, serving up to eight people with ease.
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Classic Lasagna
Preparing your very own lasagna has never been easier thanks to our Heritage collection. Traditionally a holiday classic, our Classic Lasagna is sure to become a staple in your kitchen and can even be prepared ahead of time.
The Heritage collection is perfectly suited for layered recipes such as lasagna, exposing ingredients and each layer to a consistent heat source. Our Rectangular Dish is tailor-made for this recipe, offering superior heat retention and cooking lasagna noodles evenly.
Our Classic Lasagna recipe provides between eight and ten servings and takes just over an hour to prepare. Alternatively, if you are expecting guests, this dish can be prepared in advanced and conveniently stored in the freezer.
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Braised Artichokes and Fennel with Lemon Cream
Our Braised Artichokes and Fennel with Lemon Cream makes for a delicious dish to complement your main course, bringing you that much closer to nature.
Our Oval Casserole can be used to prepare and serve this dish, providing the ideal blank canvas for your braised artichokes to stand out. This Heritage dish is designed to lock in heat and moisture with its tight-fitting lid, braising the artichokes to perfection, ensuring they absorb all the rich flavours from the surrounding fennel and lemon cream.
Our Braised Artichokes and Fennel with Lemon Cream recipe takes just under two hours to prepare, and is equally as delicious as it is colorful, offering a perfect centerpiece at your dinner table.
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Yemeni Chicken
Our Yemeni Chicken recipe is designed to pack a punch, featuring a blend of a number of delicious spices and herbs, including coriander, cumin, paprika, turmeric and cardamom, to deliver a well-balanced dish.
Our Rectangular Roaster creates the ideal environment for this particular recipe, roasting the chicken wonderfully, all-while ensuring all the rich flavours come together. Equipped with a tight-fitting lid, this piece of cookware locks in heat and moisture, ensuring superior heat retention and even heat distribution.
Our Yemeni Chicken recipe takes just over two hours to prepare, serving between four and six people at a time, making it a great meal for the whole family.
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Roast Turkey Half with Sweet and Savoury Gravy
Our Roast Turkey Half with Sweet and Savoury Gravy is a great way to make the most of your Heritage Collection, helping you experiment with a Thanksgiving classic.
Our 3.8 L Oval Casserole is the ideal shape for this recipe, delivering a truly tender and moist final dish by locking in heat and moisture. The sweet and savoury gravy compliments the turkey to perfection, featuring a number of fresh ingredients including apricot jam, paprika, rosemary, and more for a diverse flavour profile.
Our Roast Turkey recipe may take more preparation than other recipes with the brine needing between four and eight hours to refrigerate, but is well worth the wait, offering a delicious holiday meal for your family and friends.
Get the recipeBringing Timeless Pieces of Cookware to Your Kitchen
Le Creuset’s Heritage collection has been carefully designed to elevate our traditional designs with bold colours, all-while keeping in place what has made these pieces of cookware so iconic over the years. From baking to roasting and preparing layered casseroles, our Heritage Collection is extremely versatile, helping you prepare recipes of all shapes and sizes.
Our Heritage Collection comes in every shape you will need in the kitchen, ranging from Rectangular Casseroles and Dishes, to Oval and Square. Their durable stoneware construction not only ensures our Heritage Collection will retain heat exceptionally well, but also guarantees its durability.
For more information on these pieces of cookware and bakeware, visit our Heritage Collection catalogue or read up on how Le Creuset once again revolutionized this timeless collection.
