Pike with Parsley Butter
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- pike
- salted water
- butter
- parsley pluches
- lemon
Instructions
- Cut the pike into slices.
- Poach them in salted water and dish them up on a napkin.
- Cook butter to a beurre Noisette and, when it is at its maximum of cooking, add parsley pluches in the proportion of 100 grammes of pluches per 250 grammes of butter.
- Serve the butter separately, sending quarters of lemon at the same time.