Sole au Gratin
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- sole
- butter the size of a hazelnut for each fillet
- butter for the dish
- chopped shallot
- Sauce Gratin
- raw mushrooms
- 3 small cooked mushrooms
- 2 spoonfuls white wine
- breadcrumbs
- melted butter
- lemon juice
- a pinch of chopped parsley
Instructions
- Detach the fillets and slip a piece of butter the size of a hazelnut under each.
- Sprinkle the bottom of a buttered dish with chopped shallot and mask it with Sauce Gratin.
- Lay the sole on it and surround it with a border of overlapping slices of raw mushroom.
- Place 3 small cooked mushrooms on the sole.
- Pour 2 spoonfuls of white wine into the bottom of the dish.
- Cover with Sauce Gratin, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, then sprinkle with melted butter.
- Gratinate in an oven of a heat suitable for the reduction of the sauce, the cooking of the sole and the formation of the gratin to be ready at the same moment.
- On removing from the oven, squeeze a few drops of lemon juice over the sole and sprinkle with a pinch of chopped parsley.