Sauté de Veau aux Champignons (Sauté of Veal with Mushrooms)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- pieces of veal
- butter
- oil
- 1 litre fonds brun
- 5 décilitres sauce Demi-glace
- 1 bouquet garni
- 500 grammes raw mushrooms
- butter
- 1 décilitre and a half mushroom cooking liquor
- coarsely chopped parsley
Instructions
- Fry off the pieces of veal in butter and oil until completely browned, then drain the fat.
- Moisten with the fonds brun, add the sauce Demi-glace and the bouquet garni, and cook gently for 1 hour and a half.
- Change the pieces to another saucepan and add the raw mushrooms tossed in butter.
- Strain the sauce and reduce it to a third of a litre, adding the mushroom cooking liquor during the reduction.
- Pour the sauce over the pieces and the garnish, let the whole simmer for a quarter of an hour, and dish in a timbale with a pinch of coarsely chopped parsley.