Tournedos Monaco (with Raw Ham, Brains and a Grilled Mushroom)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- tournedos
- fried croûtons
- dissolved meat glaze
- raw ham
- butter
- brains
- small mushrooms
- sauce Demi-glace
- mushrooms and truffles
Instructions
- Sauté the tournedos and arrange them on fried croûtons coated with dissolved meat glaze.
- Sauté a round of raw ham in butter for each tournedos and set it on top.
- Sauté a thin escalope of brains à la meunière and set it on the ham.
- Grill a small mushroom and set it on the brains.
- Add a fine julienne of mushrooms and truffles to a sauce Demi-glace and pour it round the tournedos.