Turban de Filets de Poulet (Moulded Ring of Chicken Fillets with Truffles and Garniture Toulousaine)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- chicken fillets
- butter
- truffles
- farce Mousseline
- tongue
- sauce Allemande
- garniture à la Toulousaine
Instructions
- Take the number of fillets determined by the size of the mould; flatten them fairly thin and trim their sides.
- Line a buttered Savarin mould with the fillets, setting a row of very thinly cut truffle slices between each one and letting the fillet ends hang outside the mould.
- Mask the fillets with a layer of farce Mousseline one centimetre thick.
- Bind a coarse salpicon of tongue, truffles and mushrooms with thick sauce Allemande and fill the mould three-quarters full with it.
- Finish filling the mould with forcemeat, then fold the overhanging fillet ends back over it.
- Poach in the bain-marie for about 40 minutes.
- Take the mould from the bath, let the turban rest 5 minutes, then turn it out onto a round dish.
- Pour a garniture à la Toulousaine into the middle and surround the turban with a cordon of sauce Allemande.