Œufs aux Crevettes (Eggs with Shrimps)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- eggs
- 1 spoonful shrimps
- shrimp tails
- sauce Crevettes
- tartlet crusts
Instructions
- Sur le plat: put a spoonful of shrimps in the bottom of the dish, break the eggs on top and cook them.
- Arrange a small bouquet of shrimp tails on each side of the yolks and surround with a cord of sauce Crevettes.
- Poached or Mollets: fill tartlet crusts with shrimp tails bound with sauce Crevettes.
- Set the eggs on top, coat them with sauce Crevettes, and arrange 4 fine peeled tails in a rosette on each.
- Scrambled: arrange the scrambled eggs in a timbale and set in the centre a bouquet of shrimp tails bound with a spoonful of the sauce.
- Surround with a cord of sauce Crevettes.