Rougets à la Nantaise (Red Mullets, Nantes Style)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- red mullets
- oil
- 1 décilitre white wine
- 1 spoonful chopped shallots
- 1 décilitre sauce Demi-glace
- 2 spoonfuls dissolved glace de viande
- 125 grammes butter
- fluted slices of lemon
Instructions
- Score the red mullets, season them, oil them and grill them.
- Separately, reduce 1 décilitre of white wine with a spoonful of chopped shallots until completely reduced.
- Add 1 décilitre of sauce Demi-glace, 2 spoonfuls of dissolved glace de viande, 125 grammes of butter, and the crushed livers of the mullets.
- Pour the sauce onto the serving dish and arrange the grilled mullets on it.
- Border the dish with fluted slices of lemon.