Sautéed Pheasant with Mushrooms
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 pheasant
- 10 small whole mushrooms
- mushroom essence
- a dash of lemon juice
- a little game fumet
- 50 grammes butter
Instructions
- Treat the Sauté as indicated for the Sauté de Faisan.
- At three quarters of the cooking, add 10 small whole mushrooms, raw, unopened and tossed in butter.
- Complete the cooking and dish up in a timbale.
- Deglaze with mushroom essence.
- Add a dash of lemon juice and a little game fumet, and reduce.
- Finish with 50 grammes of butter and pour over the pieces of pheasant.