Garnish à la Frascati (For Meat Removes)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 10 escalopes of foie gras
- flour
- butter
- 300 grammes asparagus tips
- 10 small fluted mushroom caps
- 10 truffles the shape and size of a fine olive
- 10 croissants of truffled pomme Duchesse mixture
- egg wash
- juices of the joint
Instructions
- Season and flour 10 escalopes of foie gras, raw as far as possible, and sauté them in butter.
- Bind 300 grammes of asparagus tips with butter.
- Flute 10 small, very white mushroom caps.
- Trim 10 truffles to the shape and size of a fine olive and glaze them lightly.
- Shape truffled pomme Duchesse mixture into 10 elongated croissants, brush them with egg wash, and colour them in the oven at the last moment.
- Arrange the garnish, framing it with the croissants, and serve with the lightly thickened juices of the joint.