Garnish à la Gastronome (For Large Cuts of Meat and Poultry)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 20 fine chestnuts
- consommé
- 10 medium truffles
- Champagne
- 20 fine cock's kidneys
- pale meat glaze
- 10 large morels
- butter
- Sauce Demi-glace with truffle essence
Instructions
- Shell 20 fine chestnuts, cook them in consommé, and glaze them as you would small onions.
- Cook 10 medium truffles in Champagne.
- Coat 20 fine cock's kidneys with pale meat glaze.
- Cut 10 large morels in two lengthwise and sauté them in butter.
- Arrange the garnish and serve with Sauce Demi-glace with truffle essence.