Escalopes de Ris de veau Bérengère (Veal Sweetbread Escalopes Bérengère)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Veal sweetbreads
- Farce mousseline
- Scarlet tongue
- Purée Soubise
- Truffle
- Bread
- Butter
- Braising stock from the sweetbreads
- Purée of fresh peas
Instructions
- Braise the sweetbreads and divide each into 4 escalopes of medium size.
- Trim the escalopes with a plain round cutter.
- Add chopped scarlet tongue to the farce mousseline and pipe a thick cordon of it round each escalope.
- Range them on a tray and poach the forcemeat in a slow oven.
- Pipe a rosette of very white purée Soubise into the centre of each escalope, using a bag with a large fluted tube.
- Set a ball of truffle in the middle of each rosette.
- Cut thin croûtons of the same dimensions and fry them in butter.
- Dress each escalope on a croûton.
- Serve separately the well-skimmed braising stock of the sweetbreads, and a timbale of purée of fresh peas.