Fillets of Sole Charlotte
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- sole fillets
- fish fumet
- pink Sauce Chaud-froid
- chervil pluches
- lobster coral
- aspic jelly
- Mousse de laitance au raifort
Instructions
- Fold the sole fillets, poach them in fish fumet and cool them under a light press.
- Trim them and coat them with pink Sauce Chaud-froid.
- Decorate each fillet with a rosette of chervil pluches with a point of lobster coral in the middle, and glaze with jelly.
- Line a narrow, fairly tall dome mould with jelly and dust it with chopped lobster coral; mould a Mousse de laitance au raifort in it.
- At the moment of serving, turn the Mousse out on to the middle of a very cold round dish.
- Arrange the sole fillets along the Mousse, point upwards.
- Pipe a cord of chopped jelly around them and croûton the dish at will.