Garniture à la Paysanne (For Butcher's Cuts and Poultry)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Garniture à la Paysanne:
- Garniture Fermière
- small potatoes
- lean belly bacon
- Garniture à la Péruvienne:
- oxalis
- raw poultry flesh (two thirds of the hash)
- raw ham (one third of the hash)
- Demi-glace
- oil
- Clear Sauce Tomate
Instructions
- Garniture à la Paysanne: prepare a Garniture Fermière.
- Turn small potatoes into the shape of garlic cloves and add them.
- Cut lean belly bacon into dice, blanch it and add it.
- Garniture à la Péruvienne (for tournedos and various): peel the oxalis and trim them underneath so that they stand upright.
- Hollow them out into cases and reserve the pulp.
- Make a hash of raw poultry flesh and raw ham, two thirds poultry to one third ham, with the chopped oxalis pulp.
- Bind the hash with Demi-glace, or with very reduced Allemande, according to the piece the oxalis are to accompany.
- Fill the oxalis cases with the hash.
- Sprinkle with a thread of oil and treat them like stuffed mushrooms.
- Serve with clear Sauce Tomate.