Œufs à la Bretonne (Eggs Breton Style)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Poached or soft-boiled:
- eggs
- tartlet cases
- 1 spoonful purée of white haricot beans à la Bretonne
- jus lié
- chopped parsley
- Hard-boiled:
- hard-boiled eggs
- 50 grammes onion
- 50 grammes white of leek
- 50 grammes butter
- 1 décilitre Consommé
- 50 grammes mushrooms
- 3 décilitres sauce Béchamel
Instructions
- Poached or soft-boiled: put a spoonful of purée of white haricot beans à la Bretonne into each tartlet case.
- Coat the eggs with jus lié, set one on each case and put a small pinch of chopped parsley on each egg.
- Hard-boiled: finely slice 50 grammes of onion and 50 grammes of white of leek and stew them with 50 grammes of butter.
- Finish cooking them with 1 décilitre of Consommé.
- Slice 50 grammes of mushrooms, sauté them in butter, and add them last together with 3 décilitres of sauce Béchamel.
- Pour a third of this mixture into the bottom of the dish.
- Cut the hard-boiled eggs in two lengthwise, arrange them on the mixture and cover them with the rest.